There isn’t really a thought out stance on it so far.
I know a lot of instances are planning on preemptively blocking or defederating from threads, but I haven’t decided if that’s overkill or not.
I think it depends on if it ever actually happens, and also whether it ends up causing any issues. It probably won’t get blocked by default, but we also don’t want to get defederated and siloed from other instances.
What are your thoughts on it?
Honestly I think you should just pre-emptively ban it. I mean, what are the actual benefits of letting threads users engage with us? All I see are downsides and risks, especially since Lemmy lacks actual moderation tools. Facebook is a cancer. Instagram is a cancer. Threads will be a cancer. I understand the wait and see approach but I just struggle to see literally drawbacks of just banning them proactively. What do you think?
Hello following up again thx.
Just following up to see if you plan to defederate from Threads :-). There is no viable reason not to do this that I can think of. I hope you’ll do this so we can preserve the quality of this instance. Although if the entire fediverse gets rekt from this then idk if it even matters anymore :-/.
👋 I am leaning towards defederating w/ Threads. Lemmy 0.19.0 does have a feature to block instances at the user level, and I was thinking that might help when we upgrade. But with so many users on threads (compared to lemmy), I don’t think it’d be hard for threads to overwhelm everything.
I’m not even sure what sort of load impact it will have on servers. I can imagine a lot of instances will accidentally ddos themselves just by following stuff on threads.
Haha oh God. It should be interesting for sure. I can understand the argument for not defederating but my largest concern would be protecting the users from Meta’s data harvesting. They’ll likely harvest everything from Lemmy that they can if they find that a decent amount of their users subscibe to Lemmy stuff.
I think it depends on if it ever actually happens
They will federate for sure, they already prepared legal ground for it. I think federation with lemmy will be akin mastodon: treads users can communicate with lemmy, while lemmy users won’t be able to participate in discussions on Threads.
In this case, I predict Threads to become the base for spammers and trolls to engage on lesser Fedi. Meta won’t pay any attention to what their users do on other platforms (maybe with exceptions for largest mastodon servers), and Lemmy’s limited modtools will make any actions but defederation useless.
And the fact that we on Lemmy won’t be able to see Threads content (not sure if anyone here wants it anyway), federation with them doesn’t make much sense.
