Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse Meta's totally-not-a-Twitter clone, Threads, has joined the Fediverse. The Social Network™️ on Thursday announced a beta that enables users in some countries – aged 18 or over and with public profiles – to share their Threads posts to other ActivityPub-compliant servers. ActivityPub is a protocol devised by the World Wide Web …
Agreed. One should not forget that, if The Zuck is doing this, it is not in order to make Meta more user-friendly - that is just a side effect.
It is to get Meta's claws and tendrils into everything else, hopefully to the point where Meta will be the one dictating the rules.
Because when you dictate the rules, you dictate how the money flows, eh, Google ?
They integrate into the fedi
They grow their userbase
They start making changes that mean other instances struggle to interoperate with threads servers unless they adopt those changes that give meta more access/control over the data
Instances that refuse to comply will be isolated
Meta has the long term plan to kill the fediverse and manipulate those that refuse to bow to their entitled ownership of your data, privacy and eyeballs into giving them back their rightful ownership of yourself.
What the fediverse needs to do right now... is block them... before it's too late.
Some will come along and say I'm paranoid... But we've seen this happen too many times before from these and all of the other social networks to ignore it.
I quit facebook 12yrs ago... nothing will make me go back... and aside from a couple of encrypted chats on whatsapp with family... all of my online social interactions are outside of the main wankers... signal/telegram/mastodon is enough for me.
I doubt they want to extinguish it, because it's Meta and they want that data.
It's more likely they're taking their sweet time working out how to slurp data about someone's posts, replies, and followers in the Fediverse and linking it to the (shadow) profiles they already have.
Depending on what app you use for mastodon or if you use a desktop browser for it... there's settings to hide your followers, make posts private to only those mentioned or only to your followers.
I'd like to see groups added. One of the things I liked about google+ was the circles you could create for followers. I'd have music groups for people who I liked to talk and share music with... movie&tv circles. An inner circle where I'd share things I didn't want out in the public streams.
That kind of upgrade would be nice.
I see threads going on about 'quote posts'... there's a lot of us that don;t actually want that feature. Not unless there's a feature to block the ability for anyone to quote post it like you can stop a post being boosted. A lot of the issues with quote posting is when people do so, purely to pile on hate and abuse towards/about people. The fedi has become a safe space for a lot of minority groups who no longer feel safe anywhere else... anything that endangers that needs to be stopped in it's tracks.
I've learned a little more today.
They're already creating barriers for the fediverse users.
basically... fedi users will be able to see threads posters and reply... but threads posters won;t be able to see those replies unless they navigate away from threads to the specific instance/server the post was made from.
Their attitude is already... you can see our users, but we're making it very hard for any of them to see fedi users at all.
Also... their 'moderation' is next to non-existent... and as soon as the fedi gets flooded with the same kind of vile hate that you see on meta's other services... they'll start getting blocked across the fedi.
We know they won't moderate... because they've never been able to do it properly anywhere else... so mass blocking by server admins is just a matter of time... many have already done so.
It’s a tale as old as Microsoft.
WhatsApp is really the ‘good enough’ Meta kingpin, in the UK & much of Europe at least. Hardly anyone under 35 bothers with a Facebook account these days. It will be interesting to see how the space develops, hard enough to prise my kids away from Snapchat. Perhaps these natural generational firewalls are good things.
Haven't used it for 12yrs... and even back then I only used to keep in touch with some old friends I knew as a teenager... and they showed what kind of friends they were when they refused to use any other method to keep in touch (in other words, they didn't so I said fuck em and got on with my life).
But even back in 2012... it was only full of 30+ and upwards... 12yrs later and I imagine the avg age of it's users is middle aged.
An awful lot of Fediverse servers are blocking @threads.net - some probably temporarily, most permanently, so I am not worried about Threads making unilateral changes.
In theory, truth.social could probably federate (it's based on the same software) but they would be blocked by almost every server.
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