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.
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