A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse.

However, people also say that it will help get ActivityPub and the Fediverse go more mainstream and say that corporations don't have that much influence on the Fediverse since people are in control of their own servers.

What a lot of posts have in common is that they want some kind of action to be taken, whether it'd be mass defederating from Threads, or accept them in some way that does not harm the Fediverse as much.

What actions can we take to deal with Threads?

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[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can Lemmy.world go read-only? I think the biggest threat that can actually be handled is a bunch of shitty Facebook users making shitty, angry comments in lemmy.world threads. letting Threads read and display Lemmy.world content, but not comment would solve this.

There are other important threats from Facebook, but this one can actually be solved.

[–] CyanFen@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Read this: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

[–] Strolleypoley@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Threats is a better name for that data collecting pos.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Don't worry. Elon's gonna sue and Zuck will quietly shut Threads down. /s

I've been reading blog posts taking various positions and remain undecided.

[–] luckystarr@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In order to compete in user experience we need to up our game. We need to set up communities which collect, categorize and funnel user requests upstream. These features should be focused on:

reducing frictions like unclear UI, broken links, etc.
improving usability of the various web frontends (the one from Lemmy, kbin, etc.)
collecting bug reports and making sure they will be fixed

This is meant to be a proxy between average users and tech enthusiasts who know how to do pull requests or open GitHub issues. Moderators of these communities would do it for them. This would enable us to gain visibility in the needs of the users.

This is only a part of what needs to be done, but I think this can be done quickly.

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[–] Mayoman68@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm somewhat undecided here, because ultimately I don't care for federated services to become dominant at all costs, nor do I care if they shrink slightly. I want the users of these services to voluntarily choose them based on the principles that federated social media stands for right now. My personal opinion right now is let them federate, but defederate the minute the "extend" starts. But we'll see.

[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

@SDF@lemmy.sdf.org Would love to know from you, what do you plan to do?

What is the SDF's current attitude to Threads?

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