[jeroenhd]

Most big servers seem to be in a pact to defederate from Facebook before it even goes online.

I also remember the rumours stating that the Federation part was exclusively targeting large Mastodon servers, and also mostly unidirectional (from Mastodon to Threads).

I don't think the federation support will be all that great from what I've heard. But who knows, maybe it'll bring the Fediverse to the mainstream.

[ocdtrekkie]

So for the record, the author of the "pact" has been publishing blatant fiction under the guises of "unverified rumors" and nearly everything you said here falls into that. All of it has been confirmed false by either Meta or representatives of the fediverse who met with Meta.

Meta isn't making any special deals with large servers and basically no large servers have signed the pact. Most of the pact signatories are single user servers or similar, there's a handful of small to medium sized ones, and even those who are defederating Meta will not defederate the servers that do federate with Meta.

[jtode]

They will defederate servers that send them troll content though, and I don't see Meta stopping that anytime soon.

[ocdtrekkie]

Oh, absolutely. Even amongst all of the large servers, which expect to allow federation with Threads, none of them intend to give Meta special treatment. If they can't keep their house in order, they will end up getting defederated.

That being said, the big question will be how open Threads is to the rest of the fediverse. It likely won't include the global federated feed, so the question will be how much Threads users end up interacting with the average Mastodon user. It might end up being we only see Threads users when they either manually know a user they want to follow, or Meta promotes content from folks like George Takei into Threads and we see trash comments on that.

[lutoma]

That doesn't seem to be true. There are a lot of instances that have signed the 'pact' to defederate Threads right away, but those tend to be mostly small instances.

Looking at the largest 30 or so instances by users most of them seem to have a 'wait and see' approach, which seems much more reasonable to me.

[dstaley]

What's great is I can easily swap to an instance that is federating!

Unidirectional federation sounds like a nightmare on the UX side, so if that's the case I imagine it'd be Threads to Mastodon, enabling you to follow (but not interact) with Threads users.

[meragrin_]

> What's great is I can easily swap to an instance that is federating!

Define swap. I'm hearing instances which federate with FB will be defederated as well. If instances need to be federated to "swap", it likely won't be easy.

[jtode]

Don't sweat it; the Defederation radicals are far fewer in number than the rest.

Our splinter network will exist but be a non-factor to those who want "reach".

[bogwog]

> Unidirectional federation sounds like a nightmare on the UX side

What do you mean by this? If you're a Mastodon user, you'd just see Threads users on your feed, and be able to reply/boost/etc their posts normally.