Context
- List of instances defederating from Threads, the Meta microblogging platform: https://fedipact.veganism.social/
- At the moment, Threads have incomplete federation with Fediverse microblogging instances: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-86/
- Another meme about Threads: https://feddit.uk/post/18194873
- Threads does not currently federate with link aggregators (Lemmy, Piefed)
- Threads could work with the microblogging part of Mbin
The main arguments for people to defederate are
- “Embrace, extend, and extinguish” strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
- A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
- Defederating preventively costs nothing
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Threads.net federation status on major Lemmy instances based on blocklist info:
- Awful.systems - Blocked
- Beehaw.org - Blocked
- Blahaj.zone - Blocked
- DBZer0 - Blocked
- Dubvee.org - Blocked
- Eco.br - Blocked
- Feddit.org - Blocked
- Feddit.nl - Blocked
- Feddit.uk - Blocked
- Hexbear.net - Blocked
- JLai.lu - Blocked
- Leminal.space - Blocked
- Lemmy.best - Blocked
- Lemmy.ca - Blocked
- Lemm.ee - Blocked
- Lemmings.world - Blocked
- Lemmyf.uk - Blocked
- Lemmygrad.ml - Blocked
- Lemy.lol - Blocked
- Lemmy.ml - Blocked
- LemmyNSFW.com - Blocked
- Lemmy.one - Blocked
- Lemmy.zip - Blocked
- Literature.cafe - Blocked
- Mander.xyz - Blocked N
- Midwest.social - Blocked
- Pawb.social - Blocked
- Quokk.au - Blocked
- Reddthat - Blocked
- Sh.Itjust.works - Blocked
- SLRPNK.net - Blocked
- Szmer.info - Blocked
- Tchncs.de - Blocked
- Aggregatet.org - Not Found
- Aussie.zone - Not Found
- Feddit.cl - Not Found
- Feddit.it - Not Found
- Futurology.today - Not Found
- Infosec.pub - Not Found
- Lemmy.one - Not Found
- Lemmy.pt - Not Found
- Monyet.cc - Not Found
- SDF.org - Not Found
- Lemmy.world - Linked
- Sopuli.xyz - Linked
Also, in memoriam:
I have yet to see any threads content anyway.
The best if you don’t have to. If you thought Twitter’s nonexistent moderation was bad, then get ready for Meta’s moderation.
People can post trans suicide memes, people can post outright hate speech, no action. Call a “moderate conservative” a “mean person”, racist, etc., action within 24 hours, multiple-day ban.
If you thought Twitter’s nonexistent moderation was bad, then get ready for Meta’s moderation.
To be fair, there is no global moderation on the fediverse. Anyone can start up their own instance with their own rules, or lack thereof. But that is also a plus since you or your server administrator decide how to moderate content, rather than depending on the decisions of some mega company’s moderation team.
So it’s working.
Exactly. I still don’t know what the whole kerfuffle is about.
One concern is that since threads has a massive userbase and similar volume of content, it is basically a full reservoir and when it starts to federate content it will be like the dam bursting. Even if there is a need for a user on lemmy.world to do something to start federating content, like subscribing to communities, but all it would take is a bot that subscribes to a bunch of popular content to both fill the All feed and prompt a massive number of API calls.
If the hardware is up to the task, the other concern is the threads content overwhelming existing communities, and since a bunch of meta content is bot driven and malicious that would be a crazy amount of moderation that is likely needed to keep it from causing issues and driving away the existing userbase.
Lemmy is niche and therefore is heavily populated by techies but more specifically lemmy is open source so these techies are specifically the type who like open source stuff. Threads and the corporation responsible for it have a financial incentive to oppose open source projects like this. So the community most ideologically tied to lemmy want nothing to do with it. They want to preserve their space that they have made as free of the influences of capital as possible. The very existence of threads is a threat.
Hexbear? EW.
Also they don’t actually federate anything, especially not with Lemmy as federation with Lemmy is fucked up even with mastodon, misskey and basically all the other services. Kbin was the only somewhat working other service, but from what I’ve seen its abandoned.
I came here to tell you that [email protected] is actually quite nice. I was going to say, by the way, that I also went there to talk with them about politics recently, got about the reaction you’d expect, and peaced out, but as long as you don’t do that, you can enjoy the nice artwork.
And then, I realized that I haven’t seen any of the art for a few days.
Yep! My whole instance is defederated, I think. I wrote a total of five messages.
I think they’re a little thin-skinned lol.
I also went there to talk with them about politics recently, got about the reaction you’d expect, and peaced out, but as long as you don’t do that, you can enjoy the nice artwork.
Not worth it.
Absolutely not worth it and I’m staying in my savespace they defederated. We are better.
They told me to tell you, “The bloodthirsty liberal lanyard status quo warriors aren’t inviting Hexbears to the wine cave. What a loss.”
They also threatened to stab me with an icepick. Why not an ice axe? That would have some history behind it.
Can you tell them they should keep themselves save from me please.
Also they defeated my instance, because they are right wing idiots larping as left wing and they can’t stand anime.
To be fair, anime is kinda sus, Bonerman… as the kids say these days.
At the moment, it is more a gesture of support for our micro-blogging cousins but still…
Thread does not currently federate with link aggregators (Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed)
It federates with MBin, recently Fedia defederated Threads, but before that I could follow and interact with Threads accounts, and it actually worked
Thanks for the clarification
I’m pretty sure LW is trying to be Threads, or at least grow into some version of it. Why is, as you said, a mystery.
I have 2 possible theories on that:
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They want the federation to be all encompassing. Like a giant forum for corporations, governments and the common people. Sort of like a FOSS mall with a post office, community center and library included.
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They’re ran and/or owned ultimately by a Reddit or Threads type company.
Someday I will write my master list of unfounded Fediverse conspiracy theories.
I was going to say that I didn’t have one for lemmy.world, so that would be a good addition, but I realized that I do: LW is being run by the Russians, as a cheap way to get a solid foothold over a new sector of social media, and that’s why there was that moment in time where Youtube was giving out Russian-language descriptions for all the videos that got posted to LW.
I have no evidence and it seems hilariously unlikely, but so does “Our Dutch sysadmin decided to host the server in Finland of all places, and then on top of that, Google decided to start handing out Russian-language descriptions when people accessed Youtube from Finland. And then, as soon as we found out about it, Google suddenly fixed it for us.”
My theory would also explain why the admin team makes certain perplexing decisions like pushing so hard to make a safe space for the disinfo accounts and then forbidding anyone from calling them out.
The Finns and Russians are famously chummy.
Practically the same country. I’m sure they share a ton of the same BGP routes, too, so it would be an incredibly easy thing to get crossed up on, when Google is doing their geolocation logic.
One of the admins shadow deletes comments. I called it out and was semi banned? Sometimes things go through and sometimes they don’t when I comment there by accident. Idk, I like a lot of the communities on there. I just don’t partake except for upvotes and downvotes.
Also, it’s a decent theory.
That’s very interesting. Can you DM me some examples?
I’ve been seeing some strange failures in my own posts there just recently, but I assumed it was perfectly legitimate federation weirdness, which happens sometimes. I didn’t give it a second thought.
It was in my Reddit PTSD days and I just rage quit. I deleted all of my posts and comments for the first few pages, lol. I think it was the reddit community, but it might have been the lemmyworld issues community. I thought it might be fediverse weirdness as well, but it was there and then went away a day later. That’s not how the weirdness works from my experience. I asked him why and he had a cocky answer like reddit admins of old so I rage quit. Which is funny now, it only hurt myself since I miss a lot of those communities. Their 3d printer community is fantastic.
I saw the admin get called out for it a month or so ago and the leader said that he “does too much for the community” to let go and to email them if you have any issues. That’s the ultimate reddit, meta, x, etc., move to me so I just ignored it. That dude is their fixer imo.
Can you DM me the usernames of the people involved?
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how is that chart being built?
It’s made with Mermaid.
If you mean what decision process is behind it, or what the point is, I couldn’t tell you. It just looks weird and alarming to me.
There’s no money. And it’s not the right way to build a strong and successful community. So why, then, are they doing things in this fashion? The longer you look, the weirder it gets.
It just looks weird and alarming to me.
It looks like we haven’t put enough effort into naming things here, at least to me.
Tech Team Spiffy
May need work.
At the end of the day, any team that’s trying to accomplish a technological task needs:
- Sysop
- Genius
- Head Slapper
- Business Guy
As long as you’ve got those four roles covered, you’re probably good. You can have other people assisting, but if any of those isn’t covered, you’re in trouble.
It looks to me like LW has the first one covered and none of the other three. Their system administration team, whatever else is going on with the place, is killing it.
Can you have one person cover two roles? Could you have a head-slapping genius?
Yes, although it’s usually safer to let one person specialize in each. If you try to cross the streams, you can introduce instability. Your head-slapping genius can turn into a megalomaniac over time and drive everyone off the project. Your genius business guy can turn out to be an absolute loony, and persuade everyone to work on a project that makes no sense and will never work. It’s better if everyone picks a lane.
Tech Team Baldrick
Result!
The threads hate is so fucking stupid. Companies getting involved with Lemmy would be awesome, mostly because it’s a replacement for discord. The whole EEE thing is FUD, open source largely solved that problem. The people with control aren’t just going to give Meta they keys anyway. Some corporate involvement could help solve some real issues with making hosting easier, reducing storage needs, and increasing federation throughput.
Corporate instances would be awesome to add to my feed for the things I want to see and it would be a way to attract people to get the more niche communities. The tools already exist for the people who don’t want to see that content. If for example steam community discussions became Lemmy communities that would be a huge win for the platform.
Also threads isn’t even the same federation model as Lemmy anyway and it’s unlikely to ever actually federate to here anyway.
Threads hate isn’t stupid. Consider for a moment the literally dozens of people online without FB or Insta accounts. That is a choice. It’s nice to have somewhere that doesn’t have those users, with that groomed content, pumped for profit. Meta exists to make money - the Zuckdroid wants a finger in the fediverse pie to maximise profit for the share holders; not because he’s gone all in and techno-philanthropy. Having said that, the dilution of quality and nuance his user base “could” bring is the real worry though.
Lemmy is a replacement for discord???
sheesh, must be bad if even hexbear is doing it!
So if Meta continues to share defederated without acknowledgement from the source, wouldn’t that just put lemmy and mastodan on top?
We gotta avoid meta collecting data on the users of the fediverse.
Oh no, imagine someone being able to see data that you publicly posted on the internet!
Question if that’s possible, especially if they really start a search engine, but yeah at least do not hand over the data on a golden plate
Bruh you know you can literally just download any lemmy data right now?
That’s why I didn’t mention data collection in the reasons. Everything here can be parsed by thousands of instances. The issue is the EEE, and flooding the platform with millions of users coming from Facebook
Literally all they would have to do is spin up a generic instance with like, one subscriber, federate, and then just kick back and wait. But yeah, fuck threads. .World should de-federate.
Its possible to convince me to move to another instance if anybody can recommend one with the following:
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Anti-Tankie sentiment/rules/regulation (fuck those fake communists flooding the feed with spam 24/7)
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Fairly active community
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General use instance, not one with a specific agenda
But otherwise I guess I’d probably just stop using lemmy altogether when threads hits World.
Sopuli.xyz has blocked both lemmygrad and hexbear. You can block lemmy.ml in your user settings, that should set you up.
About the active community, not sure what you mean, as exporting and importing your settings would keep you subscribed to the same communities that your current account, and sopuli is large enough to have the same All feed than LW
“fairly active community” in this context means more than just 100 accounts moderated by 1 guy in a basement with a lot of spiders in it
No offense intended to that man and his 100 users, just doesn’t seem like a very good longterm solution. Much of the internet today is transient and impermanent.
No matter what instance you are on, you are most likely to be subscribed to communities on other instances. For example, when I switched instances due to technical issues I ended up subbing to the same or at least a similar list of communities across instances and blocking the same users after a few weeks.
Problem is I don’t really do that. I just like to browse the all feed, often Top Hour and Top Day as well.
Sopuli.xyz has the same All feed as LW, as they block the same instances, and Sopuli is large enough that people have subscribed to any active community possible
The easy solution is to just go to an instance and browse their All feed and see if it has the content you like. If I understand correctly you are limited to instance communities if you aren’t signed in so that should give you a good idea about the instance culture.
For example, if you visit https://startrek.website/ you will see it is pretty much star trek stuff. If you go to hexbear you will just see their hexbear bullshit. Both will give you an idea of what their instance is all about without needing to register.
Sopuli has 479 monthly users. It is in the top 20 most active instances: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
Filter by MAU for monthly active users
Anti-Tankie sentiment/rules/regulation (fuck those fake communists flooding the feed with spam 24/7)
I’ve been messing around with an automatic troll filter for ponder.cat that auto-blocks the doo doo head accounts regardless of whether the mods are doing their jobs. No Linkerbaan, no UM back when he was around, no MBFC bot. There are around a couple of hundred users that everyone universally dislikes, and with them gone, the place is much nicer.
I’ve found that just avoiding lemmy.world takes care of 90% of the problem, so I haven’t done much with the programmatic solution, but if you want to browse the bad communities without the bad people I can probably hook you up.
Fairly active community
On this count I fail. It’s two guys, no spiders, sometimes a cat, and a pretty uncertain future.
Moving to Lemmy.world from Lemmy.today was actually a solution that decreased the tankie activity I saw, interestingly enough.
Yeah, just doing away with LW in all my subscriptions made so much of the stupidity go away. I’m still on [email protected], but just as of the last day or two, it’s been showing some kind of federation problem, so I think I will let it go as well.
The niche communities with responsible moderators on LW are still great. The stuff that flows out of that big planned-economy org chart has some kind of rot going on with it that you don’t even realize the extent of, until you remove it from your Lemmy.
UM
He’s still around, he showed up in my All feed the other day, on lemm.ee now IIRC
He’s got an account on sh.itjust.works, too.
I’m not sure what’s the moderation philosophy that’s welcoming him to these instances. It’s possible that because he hasn’t caused a problem yet on the new accounts, there’s no harm done, but I would be saddened and surprised if the more up-to-speed places were as lenient with him as LW was.
PieFed.social, Mbin, or use one of Sync or Connect that can actually block tankie users - Lemmy’s “block” doesn’t block hardly anything at all, as you still see them, they can downvote you, generate notifications, etc. Read more here.
You may also want to block certain news and political communities in favor of better ones that are not so filled with toxicity and misinformation regardless of whether the content comes from certain instances.
pick two.
fr fr
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Dang it I was on lemmy.wtf and that one has been down for days now. Now you’re telling me this one will get flooded with “tweets”? Do I have to pack up my shit again? We’ll see how bad it will get.
Edit: it’s up again. It is too unreliable though.
Lemmings.world defederates threads: https://lemmings.world/instances
Ah, great misread my instance 😄
I’ve been here a year and I still don’t get how lemmy works. lol
Apparently I’m on the world one. No idea what impact that has, I just remember it being the easiest to join
A great reminder, that I will never understand how this site works. Isn’t lemmy.world like the main page? That’s what shows up on my Sync app.
Lemmy is like email, and lemmy.world is like your email provider. Sync is like Outlook
lemmy.world is like Hotmail - an early adopter that did rather well.
No, .world is not anything like a ‘main page’. It’s just the largest “instance”.
Lemmy isn’t even really a site, it’s more like what email is - a data exchange protocol.
You see mostly .world content because you share that domain, and they’ve “blocked” a lot of other domains.
You can make an account at any-other instance and see a lot of other content. Lemmy.world has “blocked” (defederated) with a lot of instances, so you’re not seeing everything.
Sync is just an app that lets you view your account content (similar to how gmail the app lets you view your email content).
LemmyActivityPub
I’m not tech savvy but this image from the welcome to lemm.ee post helped me understand it way better than the email example
So if lemmy.world has defederated with many other instances, would that mean that clicking ‘All’ in the example provided won’t show content from those instances if your account comes from lemmy.world?
Yes. You will not see content from an instance that has defederated your home instance or that your home instance has taken action and defederated from.
Correct. You can’t see hexbear.net content from LW
Different websites show the same content.
https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected] shows the community we are in from another instance, Lemm.ee.
There is no “main page”, different instances host different communities and users, but everything is still connected by default (sometimes instance disagree and prefer to block each other)
Lemmy.world is one of many lemmy instances. Any Lemmy instance will show posts on their “all” page from instances they’re federated with. Generally, you can subscribe to and comment in federated communities.
Depending on your viewer/app, you’ll see the instance following an @ sign. For example, username [email protected] means that account is on the sh.itjust.works instance. Similar for communities.
May have missed some finer points but that’s generally how it works.
It’s the biggest instance, and the one you signed* up at, so in essence, for you it is. However the content you see there will be made up of not only users and communities from Lemmy.world but also from all the instance they’re federated with. I’m registered elsewhere but you’ll still get this reply.
Edit: i.e. I also use Sync but it says sh.itjust.works
Wat?
I tried to provide some context in the OP, what questions do you have?
