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Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed (mastodon.social)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For anyone wondering if Threads and Facebook at large will be a fine neighbor in the space and compatible with other apps/services in the fediverse: they’re already automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Does this mean that if we always mention pixelfed or @pixelfed we can effectively block Meta from leveraging our contributions to the Fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

... Or you know, just go to an instance that defederates from Threads if you don't want you content there?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Some of us are not savy and don't know how to do that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

your instance is already defederated from threads

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! I thought it was but then I have been seeing toots from instances that I'm not supposed to be able to see (or so I thought) so I wasn't so sure I understood the whole thing anymore. Also, I don't understand the difference between defederated and fedipact 😬

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fedipact is people who've signed some thing pledging to never federate with threads, whereas all the other ones have just defederated them without signing the pact. In reality there's not really any difference at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks a lot for taking the time to reply! I apologize for having a "knot in my brain" about this. I have now had the time to read most of this whole exchange and understand better. Also I realized that what was confusing me was not on a Lemmy server. I was under the impression that the fedipact meant that my other server (Neuro different.me) will not federate with thread but will also defederate from servers who federate with Thread. But that doesn't seem to be the case so what I don't understand now is: if my server defederated Thread but remains federated with a server that didn't defederate Thread... My data could still land on a Thread server?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If my server defederated Thread but remains federated with a server that didn’t defederate Thread… My data could still land on a Thread server?

if your instance defeds threads then it blocks any information being sent to threads at all so they wont receive anything that you post, not even your upvotes on posts will federate with threads.

The only case where this gets kind of weird is if you're on an instance that federates via an allow list of approved instances instead of using the normal method of federating with everyone by default then blocking selected bad instances (the only large instance that uses this method for federation though is hexbear as far as im aware so its not really that important).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thank you for your explanations!