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Meta's Threads is the attempted gentrification of the Fediverse (todon.nl)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A large corporate shopping mall settles in a nice neighborhood with small local run shops and community centers. The new shopping mall says 'if we settle here, more people will come, and you all will benefit'. A few years later all small shops are bankrupt and the community is destroyed. What remains is a barren corporate landscape.

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[–] breadsmasher 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

~~Is Threads federating? I thought it was just standalone.~~

~~Searching around for “Threads Federation” or “Threads Fediverse” yielded nothing~~

Got it - ActivityPub was the term to use

Notably, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a post that there will be no ActivityPub support at launch. ActivityPub is — a protocol that is used to post on decentralized networks like Mastodon. But the platform plans to allow interactions with other fediverse servers in the future.

source - techcrunch

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

At least in the original leaks it clearly said so and apparently they did talk to some large Mastodon instance admins a few weeks ago about enabling federation with them but since it was under NDA no further details are known.

[–] YellowtoOrange 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I guess so that they can get their dirty hands on teh fediverse data "legally" and, I assume, have their own shiny app that pumps ads down your throat. There's a post somewhere regarding the permissions that threads asks for - pretty much everything you do on your phone will get sucked up by meta.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

From what I've read, their apps are not coming to the EU (yet?), which to me sounds like they don't want to comply with the privacy laws. It could be totally different, but this is my gut reaction given Meta's reputation.