I asked and enough of you answered that allowing to federate with threads.net even for the lolz would be considered too risky for y’all.

So I’ve gone ahead and added threads.net to our blocklist.

  • hikaru755@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d bet Threads was never supposed to be federated.

    Except they already publicly announced that Threads is going to support ActivityPub and federate with the larger fediverse.

    They just made use of a pre-existing software

    Not in the way you think, I believe. It’s not like they used Mastodon as a basis - they can’t, at least not without also making their own software open source, which is never gonna happen. No, the software they’re using is proprietary and built by them. What they are “reusing” is the ActivityPub protocol, but it’s not like that was a cost-saving measure. Without the goal to federate, it would make no sense at all to use ActivityPub.