Am I the only one a bit confused as to what Threads has to do with Lemmy, beyond them both using ActivityPub…? Like, these are completely different kinds of websites, Lemmy is a Reddit clone and Threads is a Twitter clone. What purpose would federation serve?

Seriously lol. These are social networks, what is the point of using this stuff at all if you don’t care about anybody being able to view your posts or interact with you

I won’t defend Meta but I don’t see the advantage of defederating when Threads activates ActivityPub.

By federating, we have access to all the people and content on Threads, removing a major barrier to entry for Mastodon/the fediverse for casual users. And because our accounts aren’t on Meta servers and we don’t need to install the Threads app, we aren’t subjected to the same level of privacy issues, at least not any more than what Meta would get by scraping our posts on the web in general.

Same, and also an OG Reddit user. My Reddit use has probably went down at least 75% since Apollo stopped functioning. The official app UI is so bad that it’s not even worth me scrolling through all the ads or fighting the horrible layout to try and find the stuff I’m looking for.

I now only check the desktop site maybe once a day. And funnily enough most of my favorite subs have been dead since before July 1st anyway. I would love to see Reddits metrics because there’s no way they haven’t felt this dropoff, even if most of the TikTok crowd continues to consoom the big meme subreddits.