You get Uncle JimBob’s boomer meme posts in your Lemmy feed now
Cons:
FaceMeta suddenly represents a huge percentage of the userbase for ActivityPub, starts adding “extensions” that only work through Threads, promotes “free communication” between those on Threads and those elsewhere, then slams the door on everyone else causing fragmentation in the space and hopefully (from their perspective) killing the protocol.
At least, that’s more or less what happened with XMPP. I’m not entirely convinced that Threads federation will lead to the same fate, but the idea of having Facebook shit in my feeds is not an appealing prospect in the first place.
What are the pros and cons to federating with meta?
Look where you are right now. Reddit won’t allow users to even name Lemmy so we can tell them where we are.
Do you think Meta might do the same at some point?
Could this be yet another attempt to contain and control us?
This is a “let’s just invite Professor Lechter over for dinner, he seems like a friendly fellow” moment for Lemmy and the Fediverse.
Admins of each instance can choose which other instances to federate/share your info with.
Here’s the convo on lemmy.world… https://lemmy.world/post/9527528?scrollToComments=true
The whole thing is there, submitted for your approval. If anyone recognizes shills by now, it’s us.
👍 glad to see those with wits about them escaped here from the infiltrated and controlled forums. Glad to have you here SubDRSive.
Pros:
Cons:
At least, that’s more or less what happened with XMPP. I’m not entirely convinced that Threads federation will lead to the same fate, but the idea of having Facebook shit in my feeds is not an appealing prospect in the first place.