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.

    • @Deliverance
      5•1 year ago

      Because social media, by definition, only works when “the masses” use it. I don’t just want to interact with the fellow nerds currently on the Fediverse, I want decentralized social media to be the norm.

    • 👁️👄👁️
      3•1 year ago

      What is this terrible gatekeeping mentality? We want more content, and we want more people to have freedom. Everyone deserves privacy and decentralization. This gatekeeping is toxic and conservative in nature.

      • @[email protected]
        6•1 year ago

        Let’s start with Facebook first, the platform that made a walled garden out of

        • messengers (went from XMPP to walled garden)
        • websites (businesses having facebook pages rather than freely accessible websites)
        • used product markets
        • online communities
        • email (sending email to a Facebook user is converted into a private message on Facebook rather than sending out the email, at least that was a thing in the past)
        • … (insert any Facebook service here)

        You can’t trust Facebook, it’s about turning its users into a product for marketers, and that’s it.