You’ll probably have heard about Meta’s Threads which is a Twitter replacement running on Activity Pub - that means that it can and likely will federate with the rest of the Fediverse.

There are strong feelings about this, from petition: Defederate any instances that federates with threads proactivly , add threads.net on blocklists everywhere., citing the triple E problem. Then there are other opinions where it’s worth creating a place for everyone and having access to the Threads content from the Fediverse without using the Threads interface.

My initial thought here is to wait and see. I don’t think immediate action is going to matter all that much and defederation literally takes a few clicks. This is a tiny instance and one of its strengths is being able to connect to everyone else.

What are your thoughts?

  • HSL@wayfarershaven.euOPM
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    1 year ago

    I’ve recently learned that while the Threads server is using Activitypub, it’s currently a closed garden and not open to federation. So this whole thing may be moot.

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts!