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When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon".

But on July 14, @alexeheath of the Verge reported that Meta's saying ActivityPub integration's "a long way out". Hey wait a second. Make up your mind already!

From the perspective of the "free fediverse" that's not welcoming Meta, the new positioning that ActivityPub integration is "a long way out" is encouraging. OK, it's not as good as "when hell freezes over," but it's a heckuva lot better than "soon." In fact, I'd go so far as to say "a long way out" is a clear victory for the free fediverse's cause.

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[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Mylemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Bummer I honestly can’t wait until we can integrate. Connecting with some who would just never come to the fediverse otherwise

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Threads will only federate if they are required to by law.

[–] eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 0 points 1 year ago

I know everyone doesn't like the idea of meta federating but that's the reason I got my wife to try mastodon. Just saying.

[–] Feyter@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Actually I still think meta doing activity pub would be overall a good thing and a win for all of us. Users should decide what will be the best platform for them to use, free from any content locking reasons.

Meta being able to create completely new social network overnight and still getting more users then entire Fendiverse without the need to open up anything... That feels more like a loose for me.

But this is a very unpopular opinion here.

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[–] Mylemmy@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

Bummer I honestly can’t wait until we can integrate. Connecting with some who would just never come to the fediverse otherwise

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I don't consider that a victory at all. Meta could bring the Fediverse to the masses. And allow anyone to follow and interact with their friends on Threads.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (32 children)

I haven't heard a single valid reason why federating with Meta is bad. Only people misunderstanding how technology works.

edit: remember pretty much all objections can be solved by personally blocking the domain, rather then forcing it to be blocked for everyone. Also that all the information Meta could possibly get, they can already get regardless because all of our content is public.

[–] reclipse@lemdro.id 0 points 1 year ago
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