Taggart Dec 13, 2023
There are basically two irreconcilable camps in the Threads debate here.

- Camp 1, understandably, wants nothing to do with Meta and view them as an existential threat to the Fediverse for plenty of well-precedented reasons.

- Camp 2, also understandably, sees potential in connecting a managed platform that appeals to entities like news outlets and other services to the Fediverse, enabling us to access that information without requiring an account on a Meta-owned platform.

Camp 1 will not cede ground because they view the issue as existential.

Camp 2 will, I dunno, deal with it or move to a server where they can see what they want to see?

But given the scale of Threads already, widespread blocking of it will create a pretty noticeably weird gap in the federation graph, and make onboarding for new potential Fedi users even more confusing. That part, by itself, kinda sucks.
Show threadDemocracy Dies in DumbassDec 13, 2023
@mttaggart My worry is that once Meta gets it's feelers into ActivityPub, they'll user their size and power to start demanding/coercing incremental changes in the way ActivityPub works to fit their needs...And their needs are, and always will be, directly related to the acquisition of money/wealth.
Show threadTaggart Dec 13, 2023
@ShredderFeeder I do not believe size and power have a lot of impact on ActivityPub's governance, but I can't speak with authority on that.
Show threadRaptor Dec 13, 2023
@mttaggart @ShredderFeeder as we've seen before though if you're a large enough majority of some piece of tech (web browsers, etc) you become de-facto standard even if you're not playing nice. We could very well see the situation a year or two in where threads starts adding their own extensions and the choice for other servers is comply or defed, pissing off their users who won't understand why they suddenly lost 3/4 their friends list.
Show threadTaggart Dec 13, 2023
@raptor85 @ShredderFeeder Is it the case now that Fedi servers must implement every aspect of ActivityPub?
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@mttaggart @raptor85 That is an awfully good question, I have no idea. I only have a 10,000 foot view idea of how it all works. ;-)

I should hope we'll all be able to say "No thanks, we're not gonna do that" to any stupid attempt by Facebook to monetize it...

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