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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Threads federation is mostly targeted towards Mastodon than Lemmy, so I highly doubt it will make much of a difference whether any Lemmy instance federates or not, since Lemmy is purely group based and does not federate well with even Mastodon to begin with as there is a huge difference in design philosophy. (Which means I can stay under the radar a bit longer.)

However, I don't think Facebook will stop at Threads, they are using Threads as a preliminary test, and if it goes well, I think the next step they could do is to get Instagram itself to federate.

So here is a thought: suppose reddit or Instagram are open to federation, would you say federating with them and getting all their content will be worth it?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seconded, I'll leave the fediverse if that happens. I want nothing to do with those sociopathic corporations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And this is why lemmy will never overtake reddit. Literally the satanic panic, because some users might be posting on some other platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not a competition, quality over quantity. I don't want anything to do with corporate social media, it's a disease.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Except lemmy isn't some "high quality social media". It's the same thing, with users that act the same.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It has much less corporate influence and the user base is self-selecting for people who give a shit enough to seek that out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, so? The independent servers / instances will still be here. Worst thing that can happen is it goes back to what it was before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The worst thing that can happen is embrace, extend, extinguish, and I think that's Meta's goal. They want to take out the competition.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh my gosh it's Margot Robbie

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress/Lemmy powermod Margot Robbie to you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago