How would Threads federate with Lemmy in the first place since they’re a microblogging thing and we’re not?
I don’t understand how ActivityPub works that well and I haven’t used Threads so maybe I just doing get it.
But why would we have to worry about defederating Threads when it’s a Twitter clone? It doesn’t have communities and such so I would think it’s not compatible. We’re not federated with Mastodon instances right? This seems like something for Mastodon to worry about. How is a Lemmy instance refusing to federate with Threads relevant?
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On mastodon, you can subscribe to communities on platforms like Lemmy, the community looks like a user. On that side of things, it just acts like a relay that accepts messages and then sends it out to everyone who is subscribed.
However, your thoughts are on the right track. You don't really see that many Mastodon users on lemmy.
You wouldn't be able to using just Lemmy. Mastodon user posts don't show up on their own, only if a Mastodon user replies to a Lemmy post.
Kbin has an easier time of it (since you can see their microblog posts, and follow them), but it also suffers from some posts not loading because they're not Federated properly yet.
How does it work the other way round? If I wanted to follow someone on Mastodon from Lemmy, can I do that?
I don't think there's any way since there's no way to follow a user in Lemmy regardless of what platform they're using.
Fair enough, I wondered if there was a way to make a user appear as a community somehow but I've never found it.