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Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/meta@lemmy.ml

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It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it's users will not be allowed to proceed.

We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.

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[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Amen! I made a longer post explaining my reasoning for blocking Threads and the decision took only 15 minutes.

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[-] d3dRabbitt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I am a little new to this. What do you mean by not letting them in, or blocking them? Not allowing them to create a "lemmy.threads" instance or something like that?

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[-] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Based

[-] spitz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I spent a month getting an instance set up on .world, wearing my account in, putting up with the lag and other constant problems... then I read about this threads™ nonsense and how .world were playing a "wait and see" game with an evil empire. Read this thread (heh!), moved to .ml. Much smoother and more glitch-free experience. Just have to start over again. So far so good!

[-] BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What's the difference between lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml? Completely different instances? Sorry I'm new and still don't understand everything

[-] s_s@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Its like one is hotmail and the other is yahoo mail. They are free services/hosts that allow you to access the activityPub protocol. There are hundreds of such providers, and you can even host you own on your own services if you wanted to/were inclined.

Lemmy is a specific layout of the ActivityPub protocol. Continuing the metaphor, you could think of Lemmy like an email newsgroup. All the different lemmy instances display and sort the newsgroups the same way, which is to emulate reddit.

[-] Kushia@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yes but you can access content from both of them from the other. Just browse to it or add the communities from the other to your subscriptions.

[-] Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, thank you, I was anxiously looking forward to this.

[-] Lermatroid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Gonna go against the grain here a little bit, but why? If they are federated, it will mean that you can move off of threads more easily to other servers and not get locked into a walled garden. Encouraging companies to embrace federation will avoid the shit shows like we've seen at twitter and reddit, since users will be easily able to jump ship without much loss. Additionally, apps like threads make federated platforms much more approachable to newcomers and those who do not even know what the fediverse is.

I'd love someone to explain it to me, but this feels like a massive footgun.

[-] EdgeOfToday@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I agree, threads connecting to the fediverse seems like it would be a positive step for everyone. I'm not sure how meta could kill the fediverse as long as independent servers exist. If meta is flooding the fediverse with spam or other influencer bs, then we can all just defederate.

I have an alternate theory that threads is never planning to support the fediverse. They are trying to attract users who are looking for a Twitter alternative, and right now the most compelling option is mastodon. But if threads announces activitypub support, then some would-be mastodon users might join threads instead, thinking it will all be connected. But if threads ends up winning all those users anyways, then they'll just say fuck it, we don't need activitypub.

[-] leastprivilege@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly what I'm thinking. Also why are server admins choosing what I can do on other instances? Am I missing something here? Why can't users be in control of who they interact with?

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[-] buco@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Great news, now let's hope every instance follows.

[-] Vlyn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you!

Meta will only go full on E/E/E on the fediverse, even by "accident" (like adding new features and breaking the standard). Better choke them off right from the start and build small organic communities instead.

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[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Excellent news. I would have moved to another instance that did block if .ml didn't block them. Thank you for this lemmy.ml

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you Lemmy.ml Meta can F off.

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