I just saw that lemmy.ml has pre-emptively defederated from threads. Are there any plans to do that here? I personally want nothing to do with Meta/Facebook, and I’m sure that’s not an unpopular opinion around here.

edit: y’all, please pay attention to where you are when coming from all.

edit again: kbin really ought to make a post’s home instance more clear.

  • Solar Bear@slrpnk.net
    12·
    1 year ago

    They can and still inject ads into the timeline.

    They can’t remotely inject ads into your timeline. Your timeline on any ActivityPub compliant server is built locally. The only way would be to embed them into existing posts that they serve you, which would absolutely get them into severe legal trouble as soon as some ad is injected into a famous person’s post making it look like an endorsement.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netM
      6·
      1 year ago

      We are talking about Instagram “influencers” here. They will happily include advertisements in their posts themselves if they get some small preferential treatment by the Threads algorithm out of it, or some minuscule revenue sharing like Google does on Youtube.

    • Fuck Work@slrpnk.net
      1·
      1 year ago

      I can remotely inject an ad into thw timeline… Its called a post. And they could flood the federated timeline with ads simply by posting ads from various accounts. Its really not a hard thing to imagine and thats only one of many possible issues with allowing threads to federate.