Should sh.itjust.works preemptively defederate from Threads?

Threads is the not-so-new reddit-like twitter-like public forum platform by Meta, the same commercial company behind internet behemoths like Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. They’re working on ActivityPub integration so that they can bridge (federate?) with the fediverse. As far as I know, the focus is on Mastodon instances, but in the future that could include Lemmy instances too.

Some have raised the question, worried about the future of the fediverse or even claiming that it goes against its definition.

What do you think should be done?

EDIT: correction

EDIT.2: The Vote is on! Go make your voice heard. You have until Friday the 29th.

Fediverse instances’ status on federation with Threads

  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    1 year ago

    This instance is uniquely vulnerable to the threat Threads may pose.

    Would you mind expanding on that? Why do you think that? If that refers to voting in the Agora, then I’d like to mention that users from other instances can’t vote in the Agora. That is only for users of sh.itjust.works.

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      On the one hand this is true, but on the other hand making an account here is trivially easy. I can’t speak to whether integration would lead to an influx of new SJW accounts from Threads to brigade these polls, but I can see why someone might be concerned.