What to know about Threads
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There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.
  • jtb@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Remember what Google Groups did to Usenet? We should be wary.

  • einlander@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It’s all fun and games until Facebook starts adding features, then eventually starts defining what the fediverse should do to maintain federation with Facebook.

    • V699@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      This is my biggest fear. The hidden weakness of the fediverse is that the largest implementation gets to set the rules of federation

      • sab@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I disagree. Mastodon does not “set the rules” for federation of Kbin, Lemmy, Funkwhale, BookWyrm, Pixelfed, Peertube, or any other platform in the Fediverse. The platforms are interoperable when it makes sense, but they are designed to fill different needs and it makes no sense for them to follow some centralized “rules of federation”.

  • Rooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    LMAO, i didnt knew that its not in the eu already… Oh wait the data privacy law is something here.

    Threads will just straight up kill the fideverse. Ping me in a year or so!

  • MashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Can someone explain to me why people are so violently opposed to this?

    If Threads blows up, and ActivityPub is integrated, you’ll have access to all of it through any federated instance. No need to let Meta sap all your data to view it or communicate with it’s users. Meta can’t kill ActivityPub or force us onto Threads, just abandon it and leave us back where we are today. If you don’t like the Meta users, just make or join an instance that isn’t federated.

    Anyone can scrape the metaverse data and use it for whatever, Meta included. Them implementing ActivityPub doesn’t change anything about that.

    Look I don’t like Meta as much as the next guy, but this all just seems like illogical gatekeeping

    Edit: I understand now, see: XMPP and Google. Good article someone replied to me with, down below.

    • luckystarr@feddit.deEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me. Big corporations want mainly one thing: gobble up as much value exclusively to themselves. They will take whatever means necessary to get there. The strategies to privatize public resources (XMPP, ActivityPub, etc.) are known. They look great for the public on the outside, but over the years will erode the value for everybody BUT them. In order to not let it get as far, many (including me) are of the conviction to not even give them a finger, let alone the whole hand.

      • slicedcheesegremlin@kbin.social
        01·
        1 year ago

        It’s only been a few hours and they already have more users than the entire Fediverse did during its peak by yesterday after all of this recent drama. We are already fucked, I salute every one of you as the fediverse sinks.

  • jorge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    XMPP did not exist on its own outside of nerd circles, while ActivityPub enjoys the support and brand recognition of Mastodon.

    I love Mastodon and the Fediverse, but to pretend that we are not a nerd circle is a bit disingenuous.