I think defederating Threads is a huge missed opportunity for Mastodon to grow.
Imagine interacting with their users and letting them know that: you scroll posts without ads, your timeline is in chronological order, your client doesn’t spy on you, you only see what you want and no other content is pushed to your timeline, etc…
if I was a Threads users, I would move to Mastodon as soon as I find out 🙂
@andreagrandi That's fine and dandy until Meta does the inevitable and creates a walled garden of trusted communities and defederates from all else, no?
Meta has zero financial nor cultural motive to embrace the Fediverse as we understand it other than extinguish it. This is why they are linking your Threads account to Instagram and requiring that you delete Instagram in order to delete your Threads account. And they still are trying to sell us on the idea that their accounts are "portable?"
@glockenspiel @andreagrandi I think it's very likely that the reason why Meta is embracing ActivityPub is to be able to comply with the EU Digital Markets Act and the direction it's heading.
They do not care even the slightest about Mastodon or its userbase. We are essentially irrelevant. They care about getting an early strong position in the technology that will likely forcibly become industry standard in SoMe.
Andrea Grandi 🦕
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