A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out"
A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out"
When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon".
But on July 14, @alexeheath of the Verge reported that Meta's saying ActivityPub integration's "a long way out". Hey wait a second. Make up your mind already!
From the perspective of the "free fediverse" that's not welcoming Meta, the new positioning that ActivityPub integration is "a long way out" is encouraging. OK, it's not as good as "when hell freezes over," but it's a heckuva lot better than "soon." In fact, I'd go so far as to say "a long way out" is a clear victory for the free fediverse's cause.
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It's ironic, considering how much we've been fighting over whether to let Meta in or not.
Fuck me, that's exactly how society works, some bully doing something, the normal people fighting over it, then the bully going "never mind lol".
That's true, although I've been saying all along that Threads' potential arrival is a great opportunity whether or not it happens.