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Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub (daringfireball.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by fer0n@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Adam Mosseri:

Second, threads posted by me and a few members of the Threads team will be available on other fediverse platforms like Mastodon starting this week. This test is a small but meaningful step towards making Threads interoperable with other apps using ActivityPub — we’re committed to doing this so that people can find community and engage with the content most relevant to them, no matter what app they use.

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 17 points 2 years ago (8 children)
  1. Most people using a service don't want it to suddenly explode with new users who might not behave in the way that old users like
  2. Facebook don't want to just be another instance and have a lovely time with everyone, at best they want to seek profit, and based on every other way they seek profit it will be by tightly controlling the experience, filling it with ads, and selling off user data (i.e. all things that most of us came here to escape from)

In summary we know everything Facebook does is pretty evil, it's "super obvious" that this will therefore be pretty evil too, right?

[–] bownage@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Ok yeah make sense! I'm definitely not a fan of Facebook's and Meta's data policies either.

But how is anyone going to control a decentralised platform tho? What you're describing seems like it would only apply to users on instances controlled by Meta, i.e. on threads itself. Or maybe I still don't understand how the fediverse works.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

One way I can think of is by being such a big player that they dominate and can thereby exert their will. For example, lemmy.world is the largest lemmy instance and we've seen a few communities on other instances dry up in favour of the ones on the big server. Now imagine that server is a hundred times bigger than the next largest and the people in charge have an active financial interest in moving people to their platform - if they play it carefully (and I'm sure they'll be employing people to think about how to do this) they can shift the existing content into a place they can control it.

[–] atocci@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That doesn't really apply to Lemmy's content though, since unlike Lemmy.world, Threads users won't be able to create /c/ communities. If a Threads user wants to post to a community in a way that Lemmy recognizes them, they'll have to post it to one under a Lemmy instance's control, or Lemmy users won't see a thing.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

That was just an analogy, I believe Threads is targeting federation with Mastodon rather than Lemmy

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