Lemmy.world Support

3251 readers

3 users here now

Lemmy.world Support

Welcome to the official Lemmy.world Support community! Post your issues or questions about Lemmy.world here.

This community is for issues related to the Lemmy World instance only. For Lemmy software requests or bug reports, please go to the Lemmy github page.

This community is subject to the rules defined here for lemmy.world.

To open a support ticket

You can also DM https://lemmy.world/u/lwreport or email [email protected] (PGP Supported) if you need to reach our directly to the admin team.

Follow us for server news 🐘

Outages 🔥

https://status.lemmy.world

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

276

To the admins- will lemmy.world block Facebook's Threads or are you open to federating with them in the future? (self.support)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by YellowtoOrange to c/support

192 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Many of us do not trust Facebook and anything it is associated with or swallows up.

EDIT:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/adam-mosseri-says-metas-threads-app-wont-have-activitypub-support-at-launch/

"Instagram head Adam Mosseri said "

““Soon, you’ll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, such as Mastodon. They can also find people on Threads using full usernames, such as @[email protected].””

“We’re committed to building support for ActivityPub, the protocol behind Mastodon, into this app. We weren’t able to finish it for launch given a number of complications that come along with a decentralized network, but it’s coming,” he said.

“If you’re wondering why this matters, here’s a reason: you may one day end up leaving Threads, or, hopefully not, end up de-platformed. If that ever happens, you should be able to take your audience with you to another server. Being open can enable that.”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"centralized" and "decentralized" are a spectrum, not absolutes. Mastodon might be decentralized in theory but if everyone uses a single instance then it's centralized in practice. That isn't the case right now, but it's also not entirely not the case, either. Same is true for lemmy

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

This perspective would also make the conversation surrounding it pointless. The proposed idiosyncrasies you suggest don't change the overall discussion in this thread. It's a non-actionable perspective. It's like saying no one can know anything ever. It's technically philosophically a valid point, but it serves no purpose and doesn't help in most conversations.