If @mastodon becomes thread-like, I’ll leave social network forever. I’m done with meta wanting to control everything, chiefly the freedom of speech in a network used to communicate. I mean, really? The upsidedown World.
If @mastodon becomes thread-like, I’ll leave social network forever. I’m done with meta wanting to control everything, chiefly the freedom of speech in a network used to communicate. I mean, really? The upsidedown World.
just go to an instance that doesn’t federate with threads.net
You can also block the threads.net instance on the most recent lemmy version (0.19.0)
You can’t block Threads users or comments with the Lemmy instance block function, which basically makes the lemmy instance block function practically useless.
Interesting, maybe this can be suggested as a future update for lemmy
It was suggested long ago. This useless bs is what we got instead.
Question:
Is it possible that this happens because your instance has already defederated from threads?
My instance (mander.xyz) has defederated from them and I too can’t block threads. (Fun fact: mander has only defederated from 2 instances, threads.net and burggit.moe)
I think you misunderstand: lemmy’s new instance blocking feature that users can use only blocks posts from an instance, not users or their comments from that instance, which is what most people wanted the feature to do: block the toxic jerks from any particular instance along with their posts, comments, etc the same way defederation would. By only blocking their posts but allowing their comments, etc. to come through, the new feature is mostly useless, as it still requires users to be blocked individually.
Since Threads is an instance that has, rather than thousands or tens of thousands of users like a typical lemmy instance, but tens of millions, this makes things even more daunting for users of instances which don’t defederate from Threads.
@abobla thank you for the update. Where can I block it? Can you help me with it?
I don’t know how to do iton mastodon, but I know it’s possible on lemmy 0.19 (lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemm.ee and others have this version).
I’ve never blocked an instance though.
edit: grammar