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  • I'm surprised it's taking them so long. It seems like it shouldn't be that much of a technical challenge for an organization with Meta's resources, especially when it was planned before the service even launched.

    • They might be talking about data harvesting and revenue generation driven from federated sources.

    • Could be just tactics. Remember the uproar the first time it was said threads would federate? Suddenly they were "not ready yet".

      Now in the second go, the idea got already normalized and there are more pro-meta comments. And they will stay silent and non-intrusive at the beginning.

      Zuck is really big into early adaptation (metaverse i.e.), they see potential in the fediverse and their first objective is to be part of it, then grow with it and finally take advantage of it, once the time is right.

      It's really not a good thing that some people think the fediverse is going to go up in flames as soon as meta joins. That's obviously not going to happen and sets wrong expectations that could lead to more acceptance.

      • I've not seen any pro meta posts. Unless this is meant in the same vein as those calling out Israel are portrayed as pro hamas wrongly. What I have seen is a lot of baseless speculation, and uninformed opinion being thrown around as fact.

        We should definitely keep an eye on every capitalist or authoritarian. Because they'd gladly sacrifice our lives and privacy for a few dollars more. But anyone who thinks integrating their own servers is going to give them any more information than the servers already give anyone who asks. Has a flawed understanding of what is possible and likely.

        This is all akin to the people who never used XMPP claiming Google killed it. Which is another bit of fear uncertainty and doubt being thrown out to stir people up in these threads as well. I have used XMPP consistently for the last 20+ years. I'm logged in this very minute. They just had a 2023 Google summer of code conclude.

        We should watch meta like a hawk. And of course not give them special treatment. But they want to connect to us. We have the keys and the power if they don't want to play by the rules. We don't have to federate with them. They're going to collect the data regardless. But the enemy of our enemy can still be useful.

      • I do imagine they have a dirty trick in mind and I'm not sure what it is yet. Perhaps they aren't either.

        There's also an opportunity though. Threads users will get exposed to open source, independently-hosted alternatives they wouldn't have heard about otherwise. Some of them will switch. If those projects can offer a better user experience than Threads, more of them will switch.

    • With a service that size, they're gonna have to move slow, make sure things don't break, and try to minimize downtime.

  • Take your time, Mark III Zucker-borg. I'm in no rush for you to screw up yet another web site with your ads and your propaganda.

  • My takeaways:

    Mosseri says that the Threads team wants to make it so the option to follow a Threads account on other platforms is available to “all public accounts on Threads, not just a handful of testers.”

    You can only follow other threads accounts?


    At the moment, he says the team plans to require accounts to be public and that users “explicitly opt in” to showing their posts on other federated servers. But the team is still considering making this the default, with the choice to opt out, instead.

    They're planning on using the fediverse content and server space without providing any.


    The Threads team wants to let replies from other platforms show up inside of Threads. “It’s a bad experience now that I have to leave the Threads app to see replies I’m getting from the broader community,”

    It's the content they want the most, this makes it clear if you have to leave their app to reply to someone on another instance. We're the zoo.


    This is a key one: follower portability. “Eventually, it should also be possible to enable creators to leave Threads and take their followers with them to another app / server,” Mosseri writes. “I believe that it’s important that creators own their relationship with their audience.”

    The bolded words makes me think that they're not going to do any of that, lol


    Please instance owners, don't wait and see.

  • In the view of Suckerberg and Mosseri : In the future there will be no Fediverse exist, only Threadverse

  • Well they can plan it if they want to, but I'm sure many instances will just end up blocking them and there isn't anything they can do about it. But on the other hand, having such a large backing is making things much easier for Threads.

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