Mastodawn

Max Kennerly Jul 7, 2023

Threads is looking better and better. What I wanted from social media was:

* self-promotion from celebrities and rich people

* no control over my timeline

* strict prohibition of any sexual content

* nothing from europe

* no alt-text

* data harvesting to empower genocides

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tom4okstate Jul 7, 2023

@maxkennerly I'm wondering if it ever actually does adopt activity pub.

I'm all for it but I don't understand what's in it for them.

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Stian

@tom4okstate @maxkennerly I see two main draws:
1. Prevent #antitrust. Using the competitive advantage of Instagram to gain users of a new service is a bit iffy. ActivityPub could be a counter-argument.
2. Content moderation. They don't want to harbour "free speech fundamentalists" or whatever, but if you ban them from your popular monopolistic platform you're suddenly moderating the public sphere to an uncomfortable degree. with #ActivityPub you can just say "go elsewhere".