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When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon".

But on July 14, @alexeheath of the Verge reported that Meta's saying ActivityPub integration's "a long way out". Hey wait a second. Make up your mind already!

From the perspective of the "free fediverse" that's not welcoming Meta, the new positioning that ActivityPub integration is "a long way out" is encouraging. OK, it's not as good as "when hell freezes over," but it's a heckuva lot better than "soon." In fact, I'd go so far as to say "a long way out" is a clear victory for the free fediverse's cause.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmy doesn't currently give the option for users to block individual instances. If it did then that would indeed be a better solution

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

Lemmy will surely add such basic feature at some point.

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

It'll definitely add that feature in the near future. I'm confident it'll land before/if Meta goes ActivityPub.