About federation with Threads: how is it possible that lemmy.world is federated? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by informapirata@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Hi everyone, I’m one of the administrators of the Lemmy feddit.it instance - my nick is @poliverso@poliverso@feddit.it

Together with our fellow administrators, based on some impact assessments, we have decided not to operate any preventative block against Threads, but I am not aware that we are still federated. I noticed that your instance is federated to Threads instead, but I don’t understand how this was possible. The strange thing is that, from your instance, it is still not possible to view those dozen Threads accounts that are currently “federable”. So I wanted to ask you: is there a way to force federation?

Thanks in advance for your feedback, sorry for the inconvenience and best wishes for a happy holiday!

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[-] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 8 months ago

Federation should hapen automaticly when a user subscribes to content on another instance.

[-] informapirata@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Yes, but I can't "find" Threads content from Lemmy.world

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

I think it might happen just from doing a search for the content using the right terms / string?

[-] sab@kbin.social 16 points 8 months ago

You cannot view microblog posts from Lemmy, so the only way you'll see anything from Threads is if a user from there responds to content posted to Lemmy or similar sites. Possibly also if they choose to tag a community in their post, but that seems unlikely for anything else than testing purposes.

Same as Mastodon users, really.

[-] Zak@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

A quick look through the source code suggests that any attempt to interact with or by another instance creates a database entry for it, which makes it show up at /instances. Someone could have tried to view a threads account from lemmy.world, or someone at Threads may have tried to view a lemmy.world post, user, or community from within Threads for testing.