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Are We Blocking Threads? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just read that lemmy.ml just did. What's our status on this?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, you couldn't. Why are you spreading misinformation? You are posting to your instance, and that's federated to Threads. Threads isn't getting any information about you that isn't publicly available.

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

I think you misunderstood, I'm not talking about just hanging out on your server. It's fairly easy to search for something and pull up posts from another server without realizing it (especially with the influx of new users fleeing Reddit who may not understand the instance system). I'm talking about a situation where someone pulls up content from Threads without realizing it and comments on that.

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

Yep - and in that case, what you interact is, is your instance. You have no direct interaction with the Threads server, whatsoever. Your instance pulls that content (which is publicly available!), and shows it to you. If you comment on it, you do so on your instance, and it federates that comment back to the Threads instance (where the data federated is publicly available - it's the content of your comment, and your handle). There's nothing malicious going on here.

That's not to say that something bad can't happen in the long run. E.g., if people get used to content from Threads, and then Threads suddenly stops supporting ActivityPub (or forks it with negative changes), many people might be lured to start using Threads in order to keep accessing its content. That's definitely a potential issue. But the technical side of federating with Threads is absolutely benign.