Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

Mark Zuckerberg said Threads is testing ActivityPub support that will make its posts available on Mastodon and other interoperable services.

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@tchambers @[email protected] no, that's not important, that's dangerous

@crossgolf_rebel @fediversenews

Both risks and opporunities with it to be sure. My thoughts remain as they were here:

https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/23/project-and-the.html

Threads and the Fediverse - A Smarter Battle Plan to Protect the Open Social Web

With the #meta #Project92 or #Threads Fediverse offering, there has been a, well, robust discussion of how to avoid threats looming. Those advocating mass-preemptive defederation make three cases for it. ➡️ To avoid data mining … However, defederation does virtually zero to avoid any big tech entity scraping all the Fediverse public social graph today - Want proof? See here: is.gd/q8U2pv But what if they merge that Fediverse data with their own internal data from IG isn’t that worse than just scraped data?

@tchambers @crossgolf_rebel @fediversenews At least in my experience, it's a pretty well-behaved place. Except for the lingerie followers, like old Twitter.
@wndlb It was much better here than on the best Twitter of all time.
Now, unfortunately, it's just a copy of that

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