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No, this is the good kind of federation because I can post on Mastodon and my normie friends can see it.
The write-only federation they’re doing now is bad because it pushes Mastodon users to join Threads.
The other side is Facebook Messenger started out as federated XMPP until it got big enough, then it changed the backend it’s using to a proprietary one
AKA Embrace Extend Extinguish. A phrase that originally referred to a Microsoft plan, but it was implemented with XMPP and other web standards much more effectively by Google and, of course, Facebook.
That is one way to think about it that I haven't seen mentioned before.
normie friends
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Facebook can fuck themselves. Fuck you Zuckerberg; traitor and threat to democracy. The same Mark Zuckerberg who started a platform that gave racists and pedophile a safe haven.
also a breeding ground for misinformation. this company should've been shut down long ago.
Now let's see whether Mastodon users will allow Threads users to follow the Mastodon users.
Gross
Lol their logo look like a pube
ballsack hair threads
I thought this was coming soon? Like next few months soon.
Compared to Bluesky, this is moving at the speed of light.
(Not that I'm interested in either coming over)
Seriously lol. I logged onto Bluesky again recently and it’s just missing so many obvious features.
Say what you want about Mark Zuckerberg being evil (he is) but I find something particularly insidious about BlueSky appealing to the sort of people who complain about Twitter every day but refuse to log out of it, while only eyeing Bluesky because the hero who made Twitter made it too. Implicitly putting their faith in yet another rich Strong Man.
I was so heartbroken once I saw the Mastodon handle of Jack Saint (leftist youtuber), only to the last post of his being "I'm moving to BlueSky". I'm also asked WhiteLeaf (worker coop behind leftist streamers's stuff) if they thought on starting their own Mastodon or other instance.
How has a worker co-op centered around avoiding centralized distribution of content not at least experimented with it yet... Idk seems like a hugely missed opportunity
Nothing was wrong with Twitter under Jack. It was perfect and this will be too!
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Their timeline is gradual ActivityPub implementation over the next year.
Mosseri says the updates will roll out “in stages,” and he recognizes that the “better part of a year” timeline is a long one. “That’s a lot longer than I, or anybody on the team, wants, but it’s the reality given all the other work we need to be balance,” he says.
Quickest way for me to get rid of Mastodon is for Mastodon to get in bed with Twitter.
Mastodon doesn't have a choice. ActivityPub is an open protocol. They can choose to defederate with Threads, but that's done at the individual server level.
gab ._.
They can just do it right now... Quit there's and migrate over to Mastodon or Lemmy. Ether which is fine.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Threads’ roadmap for integrations with the fediverse, aka the network of decentralized apps that includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and others, has been revealed.
A new blog post by Tom Coates, the co-founder of an older decentralized app called Planetary, details the events of a December meeting at Meta’s offices where the Threads team had reached out to members of the fediverse community to get feedback about the Instagram-led project to take on X with a decentralized app that will eventually interoperate with others in the fediverse by way of the ActivityPub protocol.
Meta did, in fact, start testing ActivityPub integration in December, allowing Threads posts to appear on Mastodon.
In addition, this rule would potentially come into play when a user banned from Meta’s platform moved their content to another Mastodon server.
Coates suggested various reasons why Meta may be pursuing this — perhaps to thwart coming regulation or to take over Twitter/X’s place in the zeitgeist as new owner Elon Musk turns it into an everyday app, potentially diluting its value as a fast-breaking news network and home to conversations.
Explained Flipboard CEO Mike McCue in a conversation with TechCrunch last month, what excited him about Mastodon and ActivityPub was that it wasn’t just about where social media was heading, it was where the web itself was going.
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A year? You'll put your content on Mastodon but won't let us communicate properly for a year? Why? You shouldn't have released the first part yet, federation for Threads obviously isn't ready.
federation for Threads obviously isn’t ready
Um. Sure - isn't that what they're saying?
Threads has clearly been launched to capitalise on Elon Musk's crazy behaviour - they would have waited normally but there's a big opportunity to grow right now.
facebook collaborator have no more spine than chocolate eclair
And allow failbook to data mine it as well.
They - and literally anyone else - can already do that. Mastodon data is totally public.