Good news: This will result in more average-user understanding of the fediverse, getting past the consistent issue of people not understanding it. It will increase the Fediverse's usershare by a considerable amount. And to top it all off, it will probably cause a snowball which will make the Fediverse as a whole eclipse twitter.

Bad news: This is being done by facebook, willingly. Any company that is taking action like this is doing so for their own benefit and no one elses. This may be detrimental to the Fediverse in the long run if users opt to all just jump on to Threads because of some obnoxious 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish' tactic they may or may not pull in the future.

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[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I will delete my account.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You will delete your account if... what, exactly?

If Meta can read things you post to Lemmy? They already can if they're so inclined; it's all indexable by anybody with a web crawler bot; robots.txt on lemmy.world doesn't even discourage it. If people can post to your favorite Lemmy communities from Threads? Don't expect many people to do that - there's enough UX mismatch it's an awkward experience from any microblogging software.

[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If meta has any part of the fediverse. I don't need another Facebook. Having profits be the priority will bring down the fediverse.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It's a protocol. Anybody can choose to speak it, and as of today, Threads does in a very limited manner.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

On what lol

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[–] PandaPikachu@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Judging by the comments on that post, they're just trying to run away from all the porn bots.

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