For clarity:
- The 41% number combines both instances that have actually blocked Threads and those who have pledged to do so at some point, so “have blocked” is a bit misleading
- As stated, this is a percentage of instances, not users. Roughly 24% of users are on instances that have limited, blocked, or pledged to block Threads.
How do we as users go about blocking them? Can we yet? Or do we have to wait for v .19?
Pre-0.19 I assume you would need to be on an instance that is blocking them.
Post-0.19 you can block them as an instance, meaning “any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden”
So, the answer still varies depending on your goals for blocking.
Thank you!
We haven’t blocked Threads yet, but I haven’t seen any content from it either. When exactly are Threads supposed to federate?
Several months to a year. ActivityPub support is just in private testing.
When someone subscribes to them.
MOAR
good.
Don’t stop now
I wonder how that breaks down in terms of numbers of users. The largest instances seem to have federated, and they’re the ones that cost the most to run, and Meta has vast amounts of disposable income. I worry Meta will fund some of them in exchange for influence.
Meta doesn’t need to bother with back-channel influence peddling of existing instances. If Meta simply opened its own Lemmy instance it would immediately be the largest Lemmy instance by orders of magnitude.
For all I know Meta or X or Reddit already control or outright own one or more instances. I don’t hang out wherever the fediverse admins hang out, so I don’t have any tea to spill.
Good to see so many instances work together to keep the evil out of the fediverse
