Context
- List of instances defederating from Threads, the Meta microblogging platform: https://fedipact.veganism.social/
- At the moment, Threads have incomplete federation with Fediverse microblogging instances: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-86/
- Another meme about Threads: https://feddit.uk/post/18194873
- Threads does not currently federate with link aggregators (Lemmy, Piefed)
- Threads could work with the microblogging part of Mbin
The main arguments for people to defederate are
- “Embrace, extend, and extinguish” strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
- A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
- Defederating preventively costs nothing
LW stance: https://lemmy.world/post/1274909?scrollToComments=true
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I came here to tell you that !art@hexbear.net is actually quite nice. I was going to say, by the way, that I also went there to talk with them about politics recently, got about the reaction you’d expect, and peaced out, but as long as you don’t do that, you can enjoy the nice artwork.
And then, I realized that I haven’t seen any of the art for a few days.
Yep! My whole instance is defederated, I think. I wrote a total of five messages.
I think they’re a little thin-skinned lol.
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They told me to tell you, “The bloodthirsty liberal lanyard status quo warriors aren’t inviting Hexbears to the wine cave. What a loss.”
They also threatened to stab me with an icepick. Why not an ice axe? That would have some history behind it.
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That’s the funny part to me. Every Lemmy edgelord likes to pretend that everyone but them on Lemmy is working for the DNC or something. I like the Democrats, and I can assure you that it’s not a popular point of view. If I had a nickel for every time the mods stepped in to ban the person I was talking to because they weren’t going along with my DNC propaganda, I’d have 0 nickels.
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Democratic National Committee. The organizing machine behind the Democrats.
Take all the worst people in the world who still wear the blue hat, put them in charge of one of the most important tasks in the world, and make sure to pay them huge amounts of money even when they are failing harder than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest, and what do you get? The DNC. They’re the ones that got rid of Bernie Sanders and brought us Hillary Clinton instead.
I’m pretty sure LW is trying to be Threads, or at least grow into some version of it. Why is, as you said, a mystery.
how is that chart being built?
It’s made with Mermaid.
If you mean what decision process is behind it, or what the point is, I couldn’t tell you. It just looks weird and alarming to me.
There’s no money. And it’s not the right way to build a strong and successful community. So why, then, are they doing things in this fashion? The longer you look, the weirder it gets.
It just looks weird and alarming to me.
It looks like we haven’t put enough effort into naming things here, at least to me.
Tech Team Spiffy
May need work.
At the end of the day, any team that’s trying to accomplish a technological task needs:
- Sysop
- Genius
- Head Slapper
- Business Guy
As long as you’ve got those four roles covered, you’re probably good. You can have other people assisting, but if any of those isn’t covered, you’re in trouble.
It looks to me like LW has the first one covered and none of the other three. Their system administration team, whatever else is going on with the place, is killing it.
Can you have one person cover two roles? Could you have a head-slapping genius?
Yes, although it’s usually safer to let one person specialize in each. If you try to cross the streams, you can introduce instability. Your head-slapping genius can turn into a megalomaniac over time and drive everyone off the project. Your genius business guy can turn out to be an absolute loony, and persuade everyone to work on a project that makes no sense and will never work. It’s better if everyone picks a lane.
Tech Team Baldrick
Result!
I loooooooove mermaid js. I hate hand drawing diagrams.
Threads.net federation status on major Lemmy instances based on blocklist info:
- Awful.systems - Blocked
- Beehaw.org - Blocked
- Blahaj.zone - Blocked
- DBZer0 - Blocked
- Dubvee.org - Blocked
- Eco.br - Blocked
- Feddit.org - Blocked
- Feddit.nl - Blocked
- Feddit.uk - Blocked
- Hexbear.net - Blocked
- JLai.lu - Blocked
- Leminal.space - Blocked
- Lemmy.best - Blocked
- Lemmy.ca - Blocked
- Lemm.ee - Blocked
- Lemmings.world - Blocked
- Lemmyf.uk - Blocked
- Lemmygrad.ml - Blocked
- Lemy.lol - Blocked
- Lemmy.ml - Blocked
- LemmyNSFW.com - Blocked
- Lemmy.one - Blocked
- Lemmy.zip - Blocked
- Literature.cafe - Blocked
- Mander.xyz - Blocked N
- Midwest.social - Blocked
- Pawb.social - Blocked
- Quokk.au - Blocked
- Reddthat - Blocked
- Sh.Itjust.works - Blocked
- SLRPNK.net - Blocked
- Szmer.info - Blocked
- Tchncs.de - Blocked
- Aggregatet.org - Not Found
- Aussie.zone - Not Found
- Feddit.cl - Not Found
- Feddit.it - Not Found
- Futurology.today - Not Found
- Infosec.pub - Not Found
- Lemmy.one - Not Found
- Lemmy.pt - Not Found
- Monyet.cc - Not Found
- SDF.org - Not Found
- Lemmy.world - Linked
- Sopuli.xyz - Linked
Also, in memoriam:

At the moment, it is more a gesture of support for our micro-blogging cousins but still…
We gotta avoid meta collecting data on the users of the fediverse.
Oh no, imagine someone being able to see data that you publicly posted on the internet!
@xigoi The horror!!!
Question if that’s possible, especially if they really start a search engine, but yeah at least do not hand over the data on a golden plate
Thread does not currently federate with link aggregators (Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed)
It federates with MBin, recently Fedia defederated Threads, but before that I could follow and interact with Threads accounts, and it actually worked
Thanks for the clarification
Dang it I was on lemmy.wtf and that one has been down for days now. Now you’re telling me this one will get flooded with “tweets”? Do I have to pack up my shit again? We’ll see how bad it will get.
Edit: it’s up again. It is too unreliable though.
Lemmings.world defederates threads: https://lemmings.world/instances
Ah, great misread my instance 😄
So if Meta continues to share defederated without acknowledgement from the source, wouldn’t that just put lemmy and mastodan on top?








