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”.

  • Creatortray@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This is an excellent point. Thanks!

    in that case considering meta is saying that it would take nearly a year to federate the platform we probably should defederate them.

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      7 months ago

      What point in that linked blog swayed you? The circumstances are quite different. XMPP was dogshit when Google started working with it. ActivityPub is light years ahead.

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        7 months ago

        I really don’t know enough to say one way or the other, but the fact that this is an established Microsoft practice swayed me. I can actually believe google didn’t intend to do what it did to xmpp as a log of google employees from the 2000’s speak highly of the company, but these executives are traded like nfl players, and i know enough about meta’s history to believe they may do this. Besides I’m still new to development, but i don’t see many other reasons why it would take meta nearly a year to fully launch federation.

        Actually this just occurred to me, but isn’t it interesting which accounts were linked first?

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          Triple-E predates Microsoft. IBM was doing it before Bill Gates was a twinkle in the mailman’s eye.