Cassidy James   Dec 14, 2023

I’m happy to see Threads starting to federate with Mastodon and other ActivityPub networks!

Open standards are good, and honestly, I have a *ton* of friends already on Instagram and Threads that would never join *yet another social network*, but I’d still love to keep up with them and their lives without having to use Threads. Federating via ActivityPub enables exactly that.

#Threads #Mastodon #ActivityPub #federation #Fediverse

Show threadCassidy James   Dec 14, 2023

IMHO defederating from Threads is like an upstart email service blocking their users from being able to email Gmail users because they don’t like Google. That might seem fine on principle, but in reality it just siloes people from their friends—and makes joining the other service more attractive. 🤷‍♂️

If we want people to use and discover the goodness of Mastodon, we should federate, *and then* let ’em know how much nicer it is over on this side—all while being happy we can interact w/our friends.

Show threaddatenwolf

@cassidy Personally my most significant worry about Threads federating is the threat of ActivityPub falling victim to Embrace-Extend-Extinguish.

In a way, this already happened to the Web, as far as browsers are concerned. The core W3C standards have become so convoluted, that it's become a herculean undertaking to implement a compliant parser+DOM+layout engine.

Dec 14, 2023 at 8:01amWeb
Show threadseqastianDec 14, 2023
@datenwolf @cassidy as much as I share the suspicion about large players I think Meta has lost the ability to be hostile in a social media context. Their best chance not get regulated to death is to be as open as possible. Everywhere else they can be as evil as they want.