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!

  • Otter@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    8 months ago

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

    • sab@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      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
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      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.

      • MrKaplan@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        8 months ago

        fwiw, it does not appear to be triggerable from within lemmy at this time.

        I’ve just tried this on another instance and lemmy complains

        The webfinger object did not contain any link to an activitypub item

        I suspect this currently can only be triggered from threads.