Can someone please explain the nuance of federation that allows this?

Fediverse@lemmy.ml – 29 points – 3 months ago

So here I am sitting on lemmy.ml which is defederated from threads (and which I chose primarily for that reason) and I see a comment from the user above.

That comment is on a community at lemmy.world, and the user is apparently registered with their @threads username through @sh.itjust.works.

IIRC .world does NOT respect the fedipact, and I guess this means sh.itjust.works must not either, but I'm super confused by the username.

So I guess I still need to just block all the threads users I see, defederation or not?

It's a different colour, so it's just what that user has set as their display name.

Some good trolling they did out there lol

Yep.. and that's a blockin' anyhow.

Seriously..

They’re not the only one: https://lemmy.ml/search?type=Users&q=%40threads

AnnaWright@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
@y@threads.net@gleasonator.com
masta0f1eave@threads.net@akkoma.cryptoschizo.club
Soma@threads.net@detroitriotcity.com

This is why every frontend needs an option to disable display names. This and the emoji and zalgotext.

Thanks!