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A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out" (privacy.thenexus.today)
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When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon".

But on July 14, @alexeheath of the Verge reported that Meta's saying ActivityPub integration's "a long way out". Hey wait a second. Make up your mind already!

From the perspective of the "free fediverse" that's not welcoming Meta, the new positioning that ActivityPub integration is "a long way out" is encouraging. OK, it's not as good as "when hell freezes over," but it's a heckuva lot better than "soon." In fact, I'd go so far as to say "a long way out" is a clear victory for the free fediverse's cause.

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[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

The user base on a platform like Threads is probably quite different from that of Lemmy (or reddit) Federating with them means their content is starting to also flood to our platform and in a big way due to their huge number of users meaning that we're getting our faces stuffed with facebook quality content that many specifically is trying to escape here.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Then block their domain. Problem solved. Any other objections that can't just be resolved by personally blocking the domain? Don't ban it by default, give users the choice to ban themselves or not. There's no downside.

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmy doesn't currently give the option for users to block individual instances. If it did then that would indeed be a better solution

[–] reclipse@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy will surely add such basic feature at some point.

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