★ Amy Star ★Jul 6, 2023

1. Meta embraces ActivityPub, federates with mastodon.social, uses Fediverse servers as a "look at all the people you can talk to on day one!"

2. People on Fediverse start following/mingling with Threads accounts, thereby tightly integrating the network effect between the two

3. People decide that if they can get access to the Fediverse through Threads instead of Mastodon, which is for "dumb nerds", they'll go with Threads

4. "Threads will be ending support for ActivityPub on September 1st, 2026 - click here to import your Mastodon account"

5. Fediverse users leave en masse so they can keep talking to their friends on Threads

6. Blog post Eugen: "I didn't want to believe they would go this far"

#Threads #Meta #Mastodon

https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/110664109379249958

Show threadSkafantarisJul 6, 2023
@AmyZenunim I get not trusting them (I don’t either) but Instagram already has many orders of magnitude more users than Mastodon does. Why would Meta go to the trouble, time and expense of integrating ActivityPub just to poach a tiny fraction of their existing user base in two years? I think they’re sincere in their bet that content creators have been spooked by erratic platforms, and they’re going to demand more control over their audiences. Meta is aiming for Twitter, not Masto.
Show threadKarl Baron
@Skafantaris @AmyZenunim I bet there is some project manager at Meta who is sincere right now, but he’ll be out in 6-12 months and replaced with someone who’s job is to juice the numbers. You can never trust a corporation since they have no accountability.
Jul 6, 2023 at 8:35amWeb
Show threadNick Spacek Jul 7, 2023

@kalleboo @Skafantaris @AmyZenunim This is so accurate when it comes to corporations. An (arguably) entity that humans have invented but is so difficult to hold to account because every aspect of it is interchangeable with some other human fulfilling a role with the company's best interests as their goal.

The problem is that, "the company's best interests" never (almost never?) fully align with society's best interests.