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60% of Lemmy-instances blocks Threads.net (lemmy.sambands.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Based on data from https://fedipact.veganism.social/ it seems that the majority of instances blocks threads.net. I'm sure there's Lemmy instances with either approach that have slipped through the cracks as the list is a work in progress.

The percentage of users doesn't correlate to instances as the biggest instance on the Lemmyverse has roughly 3x the users of the second largest, a NSFW instance, 4x the users of the biggest "niché" instance and 5x the users of what I see as the second largest general purpose instance.

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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

OOTL - why is everyone blocking threads.net?

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's owned by Meta, the company that runs Facebook. If you're still unsure about the situation perhaps this can help out: https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    And the crux of the matter:

    Less emotionally, I think it’s unwise to assume that an organization that has…

    • demonstrably and continuously made antisocial and sometimes deadly choices on behalf of billions of human beings and
    • allowed its products to be weaponized by covert state-level operations behind multiple genocides and hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) of smaller persecutions, all while
    • ducking meaningful oversight,
    • lying about what they do and know, and
    • treating their core extraction machines as fait-accompli inevitabilities that mustn’t be governed except in patently ineffective ways…

    …will be a good citizen after adopting a new, interoperable technical structure.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    This is the way i see the situation:

    Letting meta join the fediverse means they will captivate the general audience and the fediverse will stop growing. Realizing this, it could lead a lot of contributors to the lemmy/mastodon/activitypub projects lose interest, which will slow down development and could eventually lead to the death of the fediverse project.

    This is how it goes:

    People get accustomed to all the content from Meta/Threads

    Meta adds extra features to their website which do not work with other fediverse instances

    People switch from lemmy/mastodon to threads or join threads directly and never ever consider joining the real fediverse.

    The fediverse project either dies down or remains a niche project forever.

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