The fediverse is discussing if we should defederate from Meta’s new Threads app. Here’s why I probably won’t (for now).
(Federation between plume and my lemmy instance doesn’t work correctly at the moment, otherwise I would have made this a proper crosspost)
Wait, Threads will be a Lemmy instance?
How can I as a user protect myself from this.
Threads is not a Lemmy instance, but it is implementing the ActivityPub protocol and thus will be able to federate with Lemmy instances, Mastodon servers, presumably kbin, Friendica, GNU Social, etc.
How can lemmy users protect themselves from Threads then?
Ask your instance to defederate from them.
Has meta given any indication that they want to federate with other instances?
Yes. They’re coding ActivityPub into threads.
You don’t buy a car if you don’t want to use a car.