Meanwhile.
I’ve seen a lot of doom and gloom about Threads and the fediverse. I don’t personally have a problem with it. More people on the network is IMO better. No algorithmic timeline means you are still following who you want to follow, gatekeeping seems silly.
Threads, Meta’s Twitter clone, starts launch countdown, plus a few details on how it works

Ahead of the app’s launch later this week, Meta has launched a landing page for its Twitter competitor, “Threads,” counting...

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@paul if that’s true there’s no way twitter can compete. More people off that site, the better
@paul soon™ sometimes means forever.....
@paul it is a little disorienting seeing a company as large as Facebook using "fediverse"
@paul So if you log in to Tusky with that can you bypass all of Meta's permissions on their app?

@pixiekat if they implement mastodon client interface* and do not do something like registration only in their app** you can use Tusky or whatever as threads.com client and do not install official Threads clients (ergo it's permission irrelevant for you).
But why do so if you can use any client with tech.lgbt or any other instance and still communicate with threads.com users?

* I see no reason for facebook to do it

** I have no idea does Threads require addition registration or you can just use facebook/instagram login and password without additional actions (i doubt)

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@MrClon @paul Oh I'm not going to use it I was just curious 😊

@paul .net?!! what a terrible choice of tld 🤮

.il would have been great: “i” for the needle and “o” for the hole being threaded

@paul probably only launching like this because they wanted to rush it out the door now that Elon's bird is circling the drain
@paul would y’all consider a bsky client?
@paul that’s great though. I can follow the news agencies and government agencies that will clearly move over and be able to stay mainly on Mastodon. Federation is awesome.
@paul I think Tumblr said the same thing almost a year ago…
@paul I hope most instances defederate them
@paul this reminds me to ask, can you use your new ios app with Bluesky?