Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook : fediverse

[-] kissland@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

what does this even mean

[-] mobley@ani.social -2 points 2 years ago

But Lemmy isn't activitypub? Unless threads opens up to lemmys protocol it wouldn't be able to see anything anyway... Right?

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[-] Wardad53@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago

why would you move from twitter, it is truly a more open forum now, dont care what views you have free speech should be the same for every one. people have thin skin and that just leaves them naturally as targets.

[-] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 years ago

While the title may be clever, Threads is an Instagram creation, not one of Facebook, and while both are products of Meta, Facebook content (and even Instagram content) and Lemmy content would never co-mingle.

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[+] eu8@lemmy.world -6 points 2 years ago

I disagree with the prevailing sentiment here. Meta using ActivityPub is going to help ActivityPub grow an will be good for federated platforms like lemmy, and mastadon.

Lemmy should not block threads.net. Individual users can simply opt out of using threads, but it's good if we can communicate with people using it and they can communicate with us using a decentralized, free, standard.

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[+] cthellis@lemmy.world -6 points 2 years ago

Generally disagree. If you want the Fediverse to become a large open standard, if not the largest, then this is going to just be a matter of course. Companies will seek to commodify all their offerings, whether they use open standards or not. Many exist that commodify on top of open-source software and open standards. The important part is to ACHEIVE the open standard to begin with, and I think it's short-sighted to pre-emptively block something that could be a strong item down that path, and before it might show itself to be more harmful towards that goal.

It can always be blocked later, situation-depending.

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