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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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From a previous comment of mine:

To be clear, I want it to be users deciding on Lemmy too. Also, people already here moving to threads wouldn't be the problem, we're small in comparison to them. It would be a few things:

They would bring in a huge party of users that would take it over and overwhelm the current users. It would be like a cruise ship of tourists taking over a small town and breaking everything for the current residents.
They could post to Lemmy, but we can't really post to Mastodon. They're going to send ads our way disguised as content, guaranteed.
If they can manipulate the users from Mastodon, it's going to get out of hand fast. They have teams of devs and psych engineering to accomplish that.
This is volunteer ran, do we have enough energy to fight Meta when they try to enforce something?
Can they manipulate Activity Pub software because we're a small team of devs? If they can, they will.
One person mentioned them having instance owners sign NDAs. What's up with that?

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't benefit them to send adds disguised because they are paid to provide ad impressions which they wouldn't have data for. It's just an annoying business model not a conspiracy to brainwash you.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, companies did it on reddit all the time, it's a thing.

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

That's why you need Nord VPN so you can play raid shadow legends safely...

The thing is they have so much less control if they do that, I'm fed up of places with adverts where comments are turned off or heavily moderate - if their post comes here they can't do any of that, I say we let them come, we let them come and then we smash them