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Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[-] Chenzo@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Not federating it seems like a weird choice. Can't each user block Threads themselves if they want? Isn't that the point of the fediverse? User control?

[-] Rooki@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah you are correct, and you dont even have to lift a finger in the next release 1 click and you block the whole "threads.net" instance.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Not with the way instance blocking works on Lemmy, unlike Mastodon which limits interactions from blocked domains lemmy doesn't limit interactions at all through user blocks, it just makes them not appear.

Combined with the fact that instance blocking doesn't even actually block the users from those instances. All it does is filter out every single community. If you read the page on join-lemmy.org it'll tell you that clear as day.

Like I said for both of these reasons user-based instance blocks on Lemmy should not and cannot be considered an alternative to defederation.