Are we defederating from Threads?

Admins are in agreement that we don't want federation with Meta.

I don't see us currently federating with them - https://lemmy.ca/instances

We'll make sure it stays that way! I've added threads.net to our blocklist.

I vote to block them as well. Don't let Meta get its claws on lemmy.ca content or user info.

I don't know if we are but I think we should. No interest in interacting with facebook in any capacity.

A lot of us just left a site because it was ruined by corporate greed. I don't think corporations belong in the fediverse. If there's a vote, I vote for defedding with Threads.

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I think we definitely should.

I, for one, vote in support of defederation from Threads. No reason to allow Meta to use our content to boost engagement on their for-profit platform. And pull users away from places like Lemmy at that.

+1 for defederating

The ideals that led to the Fediverse are antithetical to companies like Meta

I'm confused. Is threads even federated to lemmy? I thought it was more of a mastadon/microblogging thing?

What are the objectives of defederating?

To protect our data? They can create stealth instances and get the same data. I think we have to accept and be mindful that the things we share on the fediverse can be exploited by people we don't like.

To exclude their users? I understand they have partnered with Namecheap to offer users customized instances with their own domain. Is it even a technical possibility to exclude all their users' instances?

To make a statement? Okay, but then we need to do more than just defederate.

Federation with Meta would significantly increase network traffic and storage costs?

I honestly don't give a shit.

Eh, they aren’t federated yet and even if they do, I don’t really see a point in having less content by blocking them server wide.

Can’t you just block it individually if you don’t like it?

I don't see anyone here arguing that this instance should remain federated with Threads. So far it's unanimous that we should defederate from them. I agree. We should keep this separate.

I want to know what you guys are talking about, and I think a get the gist of it, but my lord, do I feel old and don't understand actually most of those words. Is there a "explain to me like I'm 5" place I could ask what are those federations and threads?

I don't think it's even on ActivityPub yet, so as far as I know you can't really defederate from something that doesn't even exist yet. But I think it's probably for the best that all instances do defederate just to tell Meta and Zuckerberg to fuck off.

Please do.

Why should we defederate from threads genuine question? They can’t control us can they? Or is it because it would ruin many instances due to the amount of users posting content on threads resulting in many threads post on home feeds here on Lemmy?

Genuine question here as I'm still new to the fediverse.. isn't defederation a one way street? Like if an instance defederates from Threads, they can no longer see anything from Threads. But Threads can still see things on all the instances? If that's the case, it doesn't feel like it's hurting Meta too much if other instances defederate from it.

Made an account here because of it; lemmy.world was my first server and I'm fairly against any federation with meta or any tech giant. Tolerance paradox applies here too!

I switched from my lemmy.world account to this one because I assumed this instance would defed from meta.

I'm running a small Gotosocial based instance and will be defederating simply because I'm afraid of the bandwidth and general load when like there is 1+ billion new users federating via Threads.

Just wanted to ask, but how do you defederate a non federated platform like threads? Does it just block the website and its links on this instance?

Edit: nevermind apparently they also used ActivityPub so it makes sense. But as a non microblogging website like lemmy that is more like reddit than Twitter, what does defederation mean?

looks like the high and mighty took the bait:

https://beehaw.org/instances

They even federate exploding-heads.com