https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
Wow the Mastodon FAQ on Meta is a piece of work. Really short-sighted and apolitical. "Will Meta embrace-extend-extinguish the ActivityPub protocol?" 1. Yes. 2. 'No, look at XMPP, that is still around' is the worst argument. XMPP is completely harmless and neutered with respect to challenging platform power. There are great people working on it and I use it daily for many years, but from a political perspective it is dead. It improves but is steadily years behind the curve with features. Momentum and perspective matter! It could have been turned around if an easy integration with Mastodon was made as it would have given Mastodon instances e2ee messaging, but that didn't happen. (Not too late for that yet btw!) 3. Here is how Meta will EEE ActivityPub: It will start with Meta being the first ones that ship full account portability including post history. That is hard problem to solve decentralized, which is why we have it yet. But Meta won't care about that. They will just use Meta nameservers as a centralized identity provider which will make it possible. (Similar to how Bluesky does it btw. ) They are extremely well positioned to do this, FB is already "the identity platform" and there is regulatory pressure. From there on there will be increasing incompatibility and extensions on Meta's terms.
@sixtus Na dann. 🙃
Hier noch weitere Analysen: https://social.coop/@loshmi/110594900719666868
https://literatur.social/@viennawriter/110589361756323889
Die Wetten stehen aber sowieso darauf, dass ActivityPub-Integration entweder gar nicht mehr kommt, oder so schlecht, dass das zum idealen Vorwand dient, um das Feature zurückzuziehen. Nötig hat Meta das Fediverse jedenfalls nicht, es ginge allenfalls um ein Vermeiden von Gatekeeper-Status in der EU, was aber auch fraglich ist.
All this conversation about #Meta on #Fedi feels like the worst parts of geek culture. So technical, without understanding context or what strikes can actually do. My thoughts: Meta will make a great app for Fedi because it has more money to throw at the task. People will start using that because it's better. It will have QTs and an algorithm. People they want to follow will be there. 🧵1/6
@sixtus @frumble "Du sollst ja deshalb kein Facebook-User werden"
interessiert Facebook halt wenig ob man Mitglied ist oder nicht, daten sammeln sie trotzdem über dich (siehe Like Button und der 2 Jahres Cookie).
Wenn Facebook an Mastodon angeschlossen wird haben sie halt eine zentrale Stelle wo sie die Daten abzweigen können statt auf verschiedene Stellen verteilt warum sollten wir es dem Unternehmen noch einfacher machen sich die Taschen vollzustopfen?