How would Threads federate with Lemmy in the first place since they’re a microblogging thing and we’re not? - eviltoast

I don’t understand how ActivityPub works that well and I haven’t used Threads so maybe I just doing get it.

But why would we have to worry about defederating Threads when it’s a Twitter clone? It doesn’t have communities and such so I would think it’s not compatible. We’re not federated with Mastodon instances right? This seems like something for Mastodon to worry about. How is a Lemmy instance refusing to federate with Threads relevant?

  • ritswd@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    I signed up for Threads, and there were 3 upsides of Threads on their welcome screen, one of them was that it will be part of the fediverse someday. It doesn’t mean they’ll do it, but they definitely intend to use ActivityPub as more than just an internal protocol.

    • Oswald_Buzzbald@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Could be that Threads will use ActivityPub to feverste with other Meta platforms in the future too, assuming they want to add such capabilities to Instagram and Facebook.

      • ritswd@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        It could be, but they specifically used the word “fediverse” in their marketing. It doesn’t make it sound like they want to create a new thing, that would sound like they want to integrate with the existing fediverse.