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[Discussion] Pre-emptive Threads defederation (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by ruplicant to c/agora

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Should sh.itjust.works preemptively defederate from Threads?

Threads is the not-so-new ~~reddit-like~~ twitter-like public forum platform by Meta, the same commercial company behind internet behemoths like Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. They're working on ActivityPub integration so that they can bridge (federate?) with the fediverse. As far as I know, the focus is on Mastodon instances, but in the future that could include Lemmy instances too.

Some have raised the question, worried about the future of the fediverse or even claiming that it goes against its definition.

What do you think should be done?

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EDIT.2: The Vote is on! Go make your voice heard. You have until Friday the 29th.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 11 months ago

spam fake votes

Why not? They already manipulate their feed on Facebook, why not do it on Threads as well? Yeah, they probably wouldn't do it at launch, but they'll probably work it in later.

That's not really what I'm worried about though, I'm more worried about my content being used to manipulate other users. I still don't want to see ads though.

sponsored posts via certain accounts

They'll probably just pay regular users to shill stuff. So ads won't be "buy X," but instead "X is great, I use it every day!"

I doubt they'd make something easily blockable like a unique account type visible to lemmy. Why would they? That would reduce their reach.

all of this is what ifs

Sure, but it's not like there isn't a ton of evidence to be skeptical. Meta makes almost all of its money through advertising. So they're going to make advertising a major part of any product they make. That's what they do, and calling that a "what if" is silly.

The real question is not if, but how much it'll impact lemmy. I don't see any reason to think they won't try to monetize lemmy users, so why give them the benefit of the doubt?