• s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        It seems unlikely that Meta will federate with Lemmy. When/if Meta adopts ActivityPub, it will likely affect Mastodon only rather than Lemmy, given Meta’s focus on being a Twitter alternative at the moment.

        • BrikoXEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Lemmy is federated with Mastodon, so whatever one can see on Lemmy is also available on Mastodon…

          • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
            1·
            9 months ago

            Just because the servers know about each other, doesn’t mean the users can. Lemmy and mastodon are not fully interoperable. Given the slow and measured development of threads, it will be a long time before they start supporting Lemmy.

            • BrikoXEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              Again, if the goal is access to content, they don’t have to support Lemmy to be able to pull content from it. They already run several Mastodon instances, but if they started pulling all the content into those instances, everyone would know and block them, but with Threads they can obscure their actions a bit more.

              Lemmy’s content is public, anyone can scrape it without federating, the bigger issue is them profiting from that content by federating.

              • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
                1·
                9 months ago

                But under current versions of lemmy, there is no way to block other instances from accessing data from your instance.

                Defederating at this point, won’t stop threads copying lemmy.world content and showing it to their users. All it will do is keep lemmy.world users from interacting with threads content and users.

                Future versions of lemmy may allow blocking outgoing federation, but until then blocking threads offers little benefit to the users.

                Meta can scrape lemmy data. There’s little that can be done to stop that on a public website. Even if lemmy.world was able to prevent sending any data to threads, they could get it another way.

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
    41·
    9 months ago

    As far as I can tell, lemmy.world is configured to federate with a blocklist instead of an allowlist. Threads is on lemmy.world’s list of linked instances because lemmy automatically links unblocked instances. The admins haven’t blocked threads, but they haven’t actively added threads either.

    Lemmy.world is taking an approach of waiting and seeing, which is reasonable at this point.