Adi RobertsonDutifully signing up for my third decentralized and interoperable social network that has zero compatibility with any of the ones before
Waiting for Decentralized Network 3 to add support for Decentralized Network 1 so Decentralized Network 1 can immediately block it at an infrastructure level, the future of social networking is here.
I understand the support for blocking Threads here but I’m not convinced there’s a pragmatic threat large enough to justify making it impossible for anyone to reach their non-Mastodon friends where they are, admittedly because I engage with Mastodon more as a network of people I know from other places than an ideological community. Like man I like Linux too, but I’m happy I have the option to compromise the purity of the movement by installing proprietary codecs.
Administrator@thedextriarchy Mastodon admin here -- I didn't bother blocking Meta, because I have no belief that Meta will ever make Threads federate with the Fediverse at all.
In a month, Threads will have 5X as many users as all of the Fediverse. There's no incentive for Meta to even get ActivityPub working on their end.
monorail times
Pusher Of Pixels (old account)@mdm @thedextriarchy a good point. Do we have any idea why they chose to make use of ActivityPub if they weren't planning to federate? Just pure marketing?
@pixelpusher220 @thedextriarchy I'm betting it's just pure marketing, too.
In an Elon-era, people are fearful of a single, malevolent person taking control of all their content. So platforms like Threads and BlueSky "talk" about federation... but have no actual interest in federating.
Just where *are* those other BlueSky servers... has anyone seen them? Did they get lost?
@mdm @thedextriarchy apparently the hold up is Jack is going to sell the domain registrations for profit
Daniel Gill@mdm @thedextriarchy in interviews it's quite apparent that they don't anticipate #ActivityPub integration ever being a feature that appeals to average users. Instead, they consistently mention it in reference to creators, brands, and publications miffed by previously stable platforms getting blown up time and again and having to start from zero. The premise of "you can leave and take your *audience* with you" seems to be the lynchpin of how they approach AP. Normal people don't have audiences.