Hi everyone, I’m one of the administrators of the Lemmy feddit.it instance - my nick is @poliverso@[email protected]

Together with our fellow administrators, based on some impact assessments, we have decided not to operate any preventative block against Threads, but I am not aware that we are still federated. I noticed that your instance is federated to Threads instead, but I don’t understand how this was possible. The strange thing is that, from your instance, it is still not possible to view those dozen Threads accounts that are currently “federable”. So I wanted to ask you: is there a way to force federation?

Thanks in advance for your feedback, sorry for the inconvenience and best wishes for a happy holiday!

  • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    A quick look through the source code suggests that any attempt to interact with or by another instance creates a database entry for it, which makes it show up at /instances. Someone could have tried to view a threads account from lemmy.world, or someone at Threads may have tried to view a lemmy.world post, user, or community from within Threads for testing.

    • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      9 months ago

      fwiw, it does not appear to be triggerable from within lemmy at this time.

      I’ve just tried this on another instance and lemmy complains

      The webfinger object did not contain any link to an activitypub item

      I suspect this currently can only be triggered from threads.