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Attached: 1 image Threads hiding @pixelfed mentions, not a good look Meta 🙄

For anyone wondering if Threads and Facebook at large will be a fine neighbor in the space and compatible with other apps/services in the fediverse: they’re already automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807

  • @[email protected]English
    -3•9 months ago

    Burying your head in the sand doesn’t change the fact that whatever LW does will affect all of Lemmy. They’re too big.

    • @[email protected]English
      41•9 months ago

      That sounds like a problem for instances federated with Meta. Empathy is cool but they are not our problem.

    • @techtEnglish
      19•9 months ago

      This is a strange response for me because de-federating is an active step on behalf of its admin, usually after a vote amongst its users, at creating a virtual boundary between the two entities. How is that burying your head in the sand? And yeah, lemmy.world is big, but aside from the obvious loss of content/users, what other effect will that have on the mass of de-federated instances?

      • just another devEnglish
        0•9 months ago

        Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that since LW will federate with them, any content they host, will end up on meta.

        For example, this discussion we’re having right now is on [email protected]. So it doesn’t matter whether our own instances have defederated meta - our posts and comments here will bring them value. Directly, in the form of content. And indirectly, in the form of processable data for machine learning, shadow profiles, etc.

        • @[email protected]English
          14•9 months ago

          but my understanding is that since LW will federate with them, any content they host, will end up on meta

          Your understanding is wrong. Instances don’t forward stuff from other instances to other instances. Instances only send their own content directly to the instances they federate with.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•9 months ago

      whatever LW does will affect all of Lemmy

      Uuuh no it won’t? The fact that they federate with Threads doesn’t mean that my instance does. How does it affect me?

      • just another devEnglish
        -1•9 months ago

        You posted this to a LW community, so your content and data will end up in Meta’s hands as well.

        • @[email protected]English
          12•9 months ago

          No, that’s not how federation works. My instance sends my content directly to everything my instance federates with. No instance takes content from other instances and sends it further - that is not a thing. I sent my content to lemmy.world and it is free to be there. Lemmy.world will not forward that to Threads.