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Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net"

If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net".

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dude, even if it isn't straight out EEE they'll just drown us, and eventually kill us because if whatever reason. It doesn't even have anything to do with Lemmy, they have to manuver carefully if they want to let us live.

Do you have a Lemmy server that can take the load off of a billion user network? I have one and it for sure can't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your server has users that all follow every single user on the entire fediverse? I will admit, that'd be a real concern in that case, but it also sounds a bit weird. What kind of users do you invite to your instance? O.o

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If 99% of the network is meta (probably more) then every user will follow stuff on meta instances, instances like Reddit, will have an enormous load of content. You don't need "everyone following everything" to get that, just imagine a "Reddit all" instance it will bring any small network to its knees.

It's all in the numbers, and the usage IMO. I don't want 10000 soul less posts a day, I want to see what people are up to, working on etc. those concepts are quite incompatible, at least on Lemmy because we are just small servers, not a uniformed giga billion network.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If your users are subscribing to 10,000 accounts who spam so badly that it causes resource issues, that’s not a Threads issue, that’s an issue of who you allow to use your instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

That is exactly how it works. If your users are abusing your instance, it's on you as the instance owner to decide whether their usage is inline with your expectations as a host, or if they're better served elsewhere.