Mike Masnick ✅Some more details on how Instagram is planning to build an ActivityPub compatible service... https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23730070/instagram-twitter-app-competitor-leak
Michael J. Coffey@mmasnick How I read that is that it's only one way: if you stay on Instagram where they can track you, you'll be allowed a room with a window to see out. But I've not seen that it works the other direction. I haven't seen the claim that people without an Instagram account could see posts from people there.
steakfrite@michaelc @mmasnick From the article : “Soon, our app will be compatible with certain other apps like Mastodon,” Instagram’s slide says. “Users on these other apps will be able to search for, follow and interact with your profile and content if you’re public, or if you’re private and approve them as followers.”
So it appears it is both ways.
(either that or only fediverse users can see instagram content, wich would not be useful to meta)
So it appears it is both ways.
(either that or only fediverse users can see instagram content, wich would not be useful to meta)
Michael Borland@mmasnick I like the idea that I can follow my friends on Instagram (delete my Instagram account I seldom use) and not have to be tracked by Meta and roll it into my Mastodon feed.
Rob Bos@mmasnick I have some friends on Instagram that I don't have much contact with these days. It'll be nice for that purpose. However, I worry that they'll be a spam source with poor moderation.
Possibly too big to block. :/
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@mmasnick ah, maybe "standalone" means "a separate app from Instagram" and "decentralized" means "supporting activitypub" and "standalone decentralized" is just an unfortunate succession of adjectives here but it really confused me 😅
ekiledjian@mmasnick how do you feel about this Mike?
@edwardk i think it will challenge the norms here, but in the long run, good for the ecosystem.
Steve Williams@mmasnick I’m also hearing about the high availability of test slots for people willing to ‘burn in hell’, rather than the sign up for another Metastrophe.
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Jari Pennanen@mmasnick This is one of those moments, where creators of #ActivityPub would've wished they made portability a feature.
Meta has no reason whatsoever to make their accounts movable to another server. It's completely optional in ActivityPub, and server holder can decide that part.
volkrisI don’t think they care.
Account portability was such an obvious feature that surely they considered but rejected it as not particularly important to what they intended to build.
ActivityPub is all about instances, not users. It’s all centered, and centralized, around instances.
Account portability just doesn’t matter to that instance-first organization.