• @[email protected]
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    33 months ago

    the communities that allow people to register most easily and see the most active content become the overwhelming majority of the content on the system.

    hasnt this already happened with lemmy.world being the Big One?

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      23 months ago

      They’re leading the pack. Although, that could change if some supermassive community like Threads ever implemented a Lemmy API.

      Still a relatively slight difference in scale between .world and Reddit compared to, say, .world and shi.tjustworks or lem.ee.

      • @[email protected]
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        23 months ago

        How does Threads federation work compared to Mastodon? Do they have an allow list?

        Mastodon users can subscribe to Lemmy communities so I’m curious if Threads can already federate with Lemmy.

        • originalucifer
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          23 months ago

          so far, the threads implementation is similar to the mastadon ‘microblog’ model. i suspect they could interact with the new lemmy pieces that allow that part of the protocol on lemmy systems that dont block them.

          i picked mbin so i could have access to both the lemmy content and microblog content. ive been following a few threads accounts and have no intention of blocking them.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          23 months ago

          If they can, I’ve never seen it. No Threads content in any Lemmy instance I’m aware of and no way to use the Threads app as a client for lemmy.world or any of the others.

          • @[email protected]
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            23 months ago

            Yeah I’ve never seen it either. However, I was curious if it was because instances were blocking it (as in fedipact).

            Checking out Lemmy.world, I noticed threads is actually listed as a linked server. So at some point, lemmy.world has traded content with threads.net.

            Though I can’t actually find the content. And there don’t seem to be any threads.net users (except a couple who wrote it in their display name as some sort of joke), so perhaps there are some threads users who are following lemmy communities but haven’t commented (or aren’t able to)?