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Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ (techcrunch.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"Threads is deepening its ties to the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which powers services like X alternative Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipboard and other apps. On Wednesday, Meta announced that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own. In addition, posts that originated through the Threads API, like those created via third-party apps and scheduling services, will now be syndicated to the fediverse. The latter had previously been announced via an in-app message informing users that API posts would be shared to the fediverse starting on August 28."

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

THE ENSHITIFICATION OF EVERYTHING MUST NOT INCLUDE THE FEDIVERSE PLEASE

thank you for coming to my Ted talk

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

The largest social media operator in the world had to adopt open source concepts and ActivityPub in order to compete. I see this as a huge win.

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

But why?

Simply put, there aren’t a lot of us, we don’t like them, and we aren’t particularly nice people, even to people we don’t dislike a priori.

It seems like a poor business decision.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That same Meta that performs emotional manipulation experiments on its users without informing them or receiving their consent? No, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is anyone even using threads?

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

200 million users apparently, though I think that everyone with an Instagram account was auto-added (or something like that)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not how ActivityPub works.

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

On a technical level, no. You're right. It would not be possible to capture the protocol entirely. But meta has serious cash to spend on marketing Threads. If they can capture enough of the ActivityPub market and were to collab with Bluesky and use their protocol (I forget the name), or make their own, it's only a matter of time before the drop activitypub and force users either to join threads or lose access to their users.

Threads and Bluesky are kind of an existential threat to ActivityPub given Meta and Twitter's track record with Open Graph, bootstrap, and public api's.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)