Mastodawn

Mastodon Migration Jul 15, 2023

#Threads is not federating with #Mastodon. Not anytime soon, maybe not ever.

In case you missed the #Meta inside information from the Verge's Alex Heath: "Re: ActivityPub integration, it's still a priority for Threads but a "long" way out." https://mastodon.social/@alexeheath/110713788758597963

This whole federating with Threads thing has never made any sense and now we see it is very likely they have just been playing us the whole time. Let's stop falling for this nonsense and get back to building great open social media.

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AliasAKA

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I suspect at least part of it was laying the groundwork for federating if they didn’t hit sign up targets. They got their target and so don’t want to federate. They likely don’t have a good monetization strategy yet — it will be difficult to serve only the content that drives engagement alongside ads especially when the control over that federated content may be difficult to exert.

That said, I wish strongly for an end to ad-based social sites.