You might downvote this, go ahead, I know you hate proprietary goods, but just listen.

Is anyone excited to see that Threads is soon to federate with us on to the fediverse? I know I am, and this is becuase I can communicate with my family from Lemmy or Mastodon as I mainly use these two platforms. I am also not saying that Threads is good, its a bad platform in terms of privacy, and Meta is notoriously shitty in terms of user data collection. I’m making this post because I was just wondering if there is someone out there like me who likes the move what Meta is doing with Threads in federating with us. We just got to be aware and be cautious and get ready because we might “spam” Threads.

I’m also not trying to get on the wrong foot, I’m just in love with Free Software, and seeing Lemmy here and discovering the Fediverse is so amazing to me. I love it already and am going to stay on it for most of my online journey.

Thoughts?

Source:

CBC

  • LinkOpensChest.wav
    3·
    9 months ago

    lemmy.world seems like a good server to have that experiment because they’re large enough to not get completely overwhelmed

    I tend to think the opposite. Being federated with the largest instance means more power they can exert against the fediverse. I don’t think it will bode well.

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      9 months ago

      You’re not wrong, that danger does concern me. But I also think the fediverse culture is pretty strong in its own right; there’s a lot of us here who won’t stand for being abused or marginalized by a big corporation.

      The XMPP situation shares some parallels, but also some major differences which possibly made that community easier to break up compared to what we have built here.