Quick note on #threads: I am really hoping it will be easy for users to set up an account, and then port it straight out to an existing #mastodon acount.
For organisations or government bodies, this would allow them to run their own instances, and federate with systems like Threads without being their prisoner, or even without losing their initial Instagram social graph.
But the real win is still the point where Twitter might be forced to do the same.
@viron_r I completely understand the skepticism, but they have made public statements saying this is going to be allowed.
https://about.fb.com/news/2023/07/introducing-threads-new-app-text-sharing/
(BTW, if you move server on Mastodon, your old profile stays on the old server, for reasons of link preservation etc, so it is not unreasonable for Threads to do the same.)
DM #interoperability with Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram is the first step we know for DMA. But already we see a gallery of anti-competitive pushes for the new product, like blatant self-preferential treatment within Instagram: https://mstdn.social/@fringemagnet/110665602604825181 Competitors should match each of these with a request for equal treatment, like: * API to post to #Instagram story or feed in the same way; * importing follow relations from Instagram; * notifying Instagram followers of a new social media account.
@jim So CMA could order Instagram and Facebook to interoperate with Mastodon gGmbH and Twitter through some reasonable existing standard, and in doing so it would effectively be ordering the use of the ActivityPub protocol, no?
As for the DMA, I understand art. 7(2) is very restrictive https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/1925/oj#007.002 but are you saying Mastodon is categorically excluded from any DMA action by art. 1(3)(b) even if there are some broader articles like 5(4), 6(4), 7(1), 18(1)?
Jim Killock
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