☆ joene ☆ (@joenepraat@todon.nl)
todon.nl
#Meta's #Threads wanting to federate with the #fediverse (if that will ever happen 🤞🏻) is a form of #gentrification. A large corporate shopping mall settles in a nice neighborhood with small local run shops and community centers. The new shopping mall says 'if we settle here, more people will come, and you all will benefit'. A few years later all small shops are bankrupt and the community is destroyed. What remains is a barren corporate landscape.

A large corporate shopping mall settles in a nice neighborhood with small local run shops and community centers. The new shopping mall says ‘if we settle here, more people will come, and you all will benefit’. A few years later all small shops are bankrupt and the community is destroyed. What remains is a barren corporate landscape.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    ~~Is Threads federating? I thought it was just standalone. ~~

    Searching around for “Threads Federation” or “Threads Fediverse” yielded nothing

    Got it - ActivityPub was the term to use

    Notably, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a post that there will be no ActivityPub support at launch. ActivityPub is — a protocol that is used to post on decentralized networks like Mastodon. But the platform plans to allow interactions with other fediverse servers in the future.

    source - techcrunch

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      At least in the original leaks it clearly said so and apparently they did talk to some large Mastodon instance admins a few weeks ago about enabling federation with them but since it was under NDA no further details are known.

    • YellowtoOrange@lemmy.worldEnglish
      215·
      1 year ago

      I guess so that they can get their dirty hands on teh fediverse data “legally” and, I assume, have their own shiny app that pumps ads down your throat. There’s a post somewhere regarding the permissions that threads asks for - pretty much everything you do on your phone will get sucked up by meta.