A community index of servers added a new rule recently, that requires every participant to defederate from Threads. Some admins are unhappy.

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.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Every time something like this gets posted, there are always Lemmy users crying to defederate their Lemmy instances.

    But remember, the current concern is with Mastodon, NOT Lemmy. Lemmy can’t actually view the post types that Masto and Threads make. Wendy’s can post all the Threads ads they want - we’re not going to see them here. We can’t. That hasn’t been built.

    Try it. Go view someone’s Mastodon account in Lemmy. You don’t see their posts.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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      3 months ago

      You will in fact see their posts if they reply to Lemmy comments. They’ll then appear as comments in Lemmy. I believe Mastodon users can also post to communities by using hashtags, though I’m not 100% clear on that.

    • Draconic NEO@pawb.fun
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      3 months ago

      @Ghostalmedia @deadsuperhero I think the fact that I was able to see and reply to this comment of yours from Mastodon proves this idea false, if you check the Post history of this account you will also find that content posted in Lemmy is visible.

      They absolutely do interact, lemmy is way more Mastodon friendly than most people give it credit for, considering the fact that communities/groups, automatically boost every post and comment for visibility.

      So people on Lemmy being concerned about poorly moderated or cesspool microblog instances is indeed a valid concern.