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60% of Lemmy-instances blocks Threads.net (lemmy.sambands.net)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Based on data from https://fedipact.veganism.social/ it seems that the majority of instances blocks threads.net. I'm sure there's Lemmy instances with either approach that have slipped through the cracks as the list is a work in progress.

The percentage of users doesn't correlate to instances as the biggest instance on the Lemmyverse has roughly 3x the users of the second largest, a NSFW instance, 4x the users of the biggest "niché" instance and 5x the users of what I see as the second largest general purpose instance.

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

And mine is one of them

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

Someone posted this in another thread and the stats are genuinely misleading here. All the super large instances are federating with Meta, with like 90% of the users.

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

I'd be happy to update it with more correct information if you can find more accurate numbers.

From https://fedipact.veganism.social/ the largest instances in order of active users are:

  1. Lemmy.world - Federates
  2. LemmyNSFW.com - Blocks
  3. Lemmy-ml - Blocks
  4. Lemm.ee - Blocks
  5. programming.dev - Federates.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

They are probably mean including mastodon, which is larger and generally federates with threads

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

With how bad Lemmy federates across other platforms, even those still federating won’t be seen on Threads lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

OOTL - why is everyone blocking threads.net?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's owned by Meta, the company that runs Facebook. If you're still unsure about the situation perhaps this can help out: https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is the way i see the situation:

Letting meta join the fediverse means they will captivate the general audience and the fediverse will stop growing. Realizing this, it could lead a lot of contributors to the lemmy/mastodon/activitypub projects lose interest, which will slow down development and could eventually lead to the death of the fediverse project.

This is how it goes:

People get accustomed to all the content from Meta/Threads

Meta adds extra features to their website which do not work with other fediverse instances

People switch from lemmy/mastodon to threads or join threads directly and never ever consider joining the real fediverse.

The fediverse project either dies down or remains a niche project forever.

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

Is kbin.social still going to federate?

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

I hope so. Preemptive defederation is a stupid idea.

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

It's interesting that Mastodon instances are trending in the opposite direction of Lemmy instances. Most are staying federated with Threads. I wonder if that's simply indicative of the strong anti-corporate culture on Lemmy, or if there's more to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe that and the creator of Mastodon actively rolling out the red carpet for Zuck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yep. Meta's convinced him that this is a huge victory for Mastodon -- and a good way for him to achieve his goal of getting Mastodon to 100,000,000 users.