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About federation with Threads: how is it possible that lemmy.world is federated? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone, I’m one of the administrators of the Lemmy feddit.it instance - my nick is @poliverso@[email protected]

Together with our fellow administrators, based on some impact assessments, we have decided not to operate any preventative block against Threads, but I am not aware that we are still federated. I noticed that your instance is federated to Threads instead, but I don’t understand how this was possible. The strange thing is that, from your instance, it is still not possible to view those dozen Threads accounts that are currently “federable”. So I wanted to ask you: is there a way to force federation?

Thanks in advance for your feedback, sorry for the inconvenience and best wishes for a happy holiday!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Federation should hapen automaticly when a user subscribes to content on another instance.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but I can't "find" Threads content from Lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think it might happen just from doing a search for the content using the right terms / string?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

You cannot view microblog posts from Lemmy, so the only way you'll see anything from Threads is if a user from there responds to content posted to Lemmy or similar sites. Possibly also if they choose to tag a community in their post, but that seems unlikely for anything else than testing purposes.

Same as Mastodon users, really.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A quick look through the source code suggests that any attempt to interact with or by another instance creates a database entry for it, which makes it show up at /instances. Someone could have tried to view a threads account from lemmy.world, or someone at Threads may have tried to view a lemmy.world post, user, or community from within Threads for testing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

fwiw, it does not appear to be triggerable from within lemmy at this time.

I've just tried this on another instance and lemmy complains

The webfinger object did not contain any link to an activitypub item

I suspect this currently can only be triggered from threads.