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Can someone please explain the nuance of federation that allows this? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So here I am sitting on lemmy.ml which is defederated from threads (and which I chose primarily for that reason) and I see a comment from the user above.

That comment is on a community at lemmy.world, and the user is apparently registered with their @threads username through @sh.itjust.works.

IIRC .world does NOT respect the fedipact, and I guess this means sh.itjust.works must not either, but I'm super confused by the username.

So I guess I still need to just block all the threads users I see, defederation or not?

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

It's a different colour, so it's just what that user has set as their display name.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some good trolling they did out there lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

They’re not the only one: https://lemmy.ml/search?type=Users&q=%40threads

[email protected]@sh.itjust.works
@[email protected]@gleasonator.com
[email protected]@akkoma.cryptoschizo.club
[email protected]@detroitriotcity.com
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

This is why every frontend needs an option to disable display names. This and the emoji and zalgotext.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@octopus_ink Someone has entered their threads handle as their username.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know this has been solved already but for the record sh.itjust.works has also defederated from Threads

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks for clarifying that!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's a good jest

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately OP has no humour

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

That's actually very funny