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Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" (wedistribute.org)
submitted 7 months ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.

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[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Part of the concern is deceptive/astroturfed content developed as advertising showing up in Lemmy communities. While those same actors could theoretically be based on lemm.ee, that's a lot more work than simply scaling up operations when you're doing it on Threads anyway.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, my point remains. Even if a Lemmy instance is federated with masto or threads, the content does not appear here on Lemmy right now. It’s physically impossible. Lemmy literally has no code written to support self posts and to follow users.

For example, here is NPR’s masto account viewed through Lemmy.world. You get their name, avatar, banner, and bio….but zero content.

https://lemmy.world/u/NPR@mstdn.social

Until lemmy decides to copy Reddit’s user pages, this isn’t a problem. Federate, defederate - makes now difference for lemmy right now.

[–] livus@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

TIL Lemmy doesn't allow you to follow people. Wtf.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feel like this would be spotted and stamped out immediately. Everyone's eyes are on Threads right now; astroturfed content might sneak in on Mastodon, where regular Threads content will be mixed in with the hypothetical astroturfed content, but here on Lemmy there will be little to no Threads presence due to lack of interoperability, so every single Threads account that shows up will be noticed. It's already super visible when Mastodon users show up due to the weird formatting issues that happen due to the lack of support.

I just don't see an astroturf campaign as being viable unless Threads implements community functionality, which seems pretty far out when they're only now implementing basic federation with Mastodon.

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

It's not that crazy, the Threads devs are already looking at specific FEPs for things like quote posting. If they really wanted to, they could implement Lemmy-compatible community groups.