• JoBo@feddit.uk
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    7 months ago

    For anybody looking to avoid ads on Lemmy, it seems like direct federation with Threads is not a good idea currently.

    Can Lemmy federate with Threads?

    I can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon (but don’t because it just fills your feed with an avalanche of out-of-context posts).

    I can’t follow anyone on Mastodon from Lemmy (and while I think it is, or should be, possible from kBin, that doesn’t seem to work well yet).

    So how can a Lemmy instance federate with Threads and how would their micro-blog posts turn up on Lemmy?

    I’m not remotely bothered by federation on Mastodon because there is no algorithm pushing crap on me there. I’ll get what I follow and nothing else.

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      7 months ago

      Can Lemmy federate with Threads?

      Yes, in the same way that Mastodon and Lemmy federate at the moment. It’s all using ActivityPub underneath, which is the protocol of the Fediverse essentially.

      You can’t follow individuals with Lemmy but you can see Mastodon user’s comments on posts and Mastodon users will see your comments and posts on Mastodon with certain hashtags, I believe.