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From the article it seems like Meta is adding ActivityPub support into threads as a way to let people use Threads to talk to Mastodon users and not the other wa
by Shawnj2 3y ago
From the article it seems like Meta is adding ActivityPub support into threads as a way to let people use Threads to talk to Mastodon users and not the other way around. That’s a pretty good reason to defederate from Threads if you run a Mastodon server
It seems like we will end up with two fediverses- most of the one as we know it, and a much smaller one that can talk to Threads.
- pas 3y agoIf I can follow my friends on Instagram from my Mastodon account it seems like a good outcome. Also, if others can easily share/repost/comment/quote content from Threads on Mastodon, that again seems like a nice outcome to me. How Threads will implement "replies from Mastodon" is not really a question I care about. (Maybe I should?)
- Shawnj2 3y agoThat would be great but it’s most likely not going to work that way- Meta will never let you use Mastodon to act as a threads client so any integration between the two will probably let people view mastodon from threads but not vice versa (except replies)
- pas 3y agoUnlikely as in that case Mastodon servers will have almost no reason to not defederate and a lot to do so. Meta, as the submitted essay argues, probably cares more about the optics than going after those 0.1% of users. But of course, who knows what's actually going through Zuck's head. (Other than the fists of other martial arts trainees.)