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

Can't agree more. This is exactly the game plan and it is sad to fall again in the same trap. Google already did it once with jabber. I can't believe how shortsighted people can be. Perhaps they (Eugene) just think they did so well that it's impossible for someone, even Meta, to simply crush their creation. Or they have their own agenda... which is aligned with the game plan. After all Mastodon is privately owned company, no?