Threads’ roadmap for integrations with the fediverse, aka the network of decentralized apps that includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and others, has been revealed. A new blog post by Tom Coates, the co-founder of an older decentralized app called Planetary, details the events of a December meeting at Meta’s offices where the Threads team had reached out to members of the fediverse community to get feedback about the Instagram-led project to take on X with a decentralized app that will eventually interoperate with others in the fediverse by way of the ActivityPub protocol.
Isn’t this a huge problem for the fediverse where a user would them need to be banned twice? It feels like Meta is pushing their problems out to others to deal with.
I’m not sure if this is the intended mechanism but it does seem like a problem for moderators. I hope this is being addressed or fediverse mods will be swamped with bad actors considering Meta’s potentially huge user base.