Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net"

If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net".

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[–] bort@feddit.de 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the general strategie is called "embrace, extend, extinguish". This strat is the reason, why everyone uses MS Office today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that reminds me of Apple with iMessage

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As opposed to Threads stealing all brands companies and users anyway?

There’s still advantages to a fediverse and ways to defend against “embrace extend extinguish” if you plan ahead.

We can’t complain about proprietary networks if we don’t allow others to join our own open ones.

[–] bort@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

As opposed to Threads stealing all brands companies and users anyway?

The extend-phase is when people migrate to threads, who would have stayed otherwise.

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

And why would you expect there to be many such people? I’d assume the intersection of people who like the Fediverse and people who like proprietary social media to be pretty small.

[–] money_loo@1337lemmy.com -1 points 1 year ago

Why are people not allowed to do that if they want to?

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You think groups that came here largely fleeing Reddit and Twitter are going to be tempted to go to threads? I doubt it very heavily. Threads is more likely to loose people to here if anything.