I used to think that there would be 1, main ‘Fediverse’ with all of the ‘big instances’ connected to each other. The recent Threads debacle has shown me otherwise.

The point of the Fediverse is that there is no one single entity, or group of entities, dominating it all.

Right now it feels like whatever the big instances do, we kind of have to go along with to be a part of anything. As the Fediverse grows, there will be more options to suit different types of users.

I think it’s fine if big instances federate with Threads and it’s fine if they don’t. People can just join instances that align with what they want. It’s not like defederating means being cut out of the Fediverse, that’s not possible.

Great design. I’m eager to see how it plays out.

  • Link@rentadrunk.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    On the other hand, interacting with Lemmy from a Twitter style timeline sucks, so I doubt we’ll see any Threads people on here.

    I wouldn’t be so sure about that. I’ve seen people interacting from Mastodon here already.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Me too, but I don’t understand why they would subject themselves to that. You need to disable boosts from the Lemmy communities so you don’t get flooded with spam, but then you miss most of the posts there.

      Maybe there’s an app I don’t know about, but I don’t think Threads will be interest in becoming a Reddit competitor as well as a Twitter competitor.