Threads’ fediverse plans are coming together.
  • @[email protected]
    56•8 months ago

    “I know there’s a ton of skepticism about Meta entering the fediverse — it’s completely understandable,” Cottle says. “I do want to kind of make a plea that I think everyone on the team has really good intentions. We really want to be a good member of the community and give people the ability to experience what the fediverse is.”

    Doesn’t matter

    • @[email protected]English
      48•8 months ago

      “We have really good intentions, that’s why we’re working for a company that’s been involved in at least two dozen scandals and breaches of user privacy. I’m sure they won’t do it again.”

    • @AnonymouseEnglish
      3•8 months ago

      I know of a guy who had good intentions. He just wanted to make Germany great again. I can’t remember his name right now, but IIRC, it didn’t end up being good for a whole lot of people.

    • Pasta Dental
      -9•8 months ago

      They just want to avoid EU regulators. And also that EEE thing is just bs fear mongering “they want to take mastodon away from you!!!1!!!”. Email still exists and is alive, xmpp still exists and is alive, http still exists and is alive, all open standards and protocols that have been embraced by big tech companies. Big companies using and connecting to other servers can’t make them disappear. People who use the fediverse today won’t stop using it tomorrow even if the theoretical mass exodus to the large platform happens like described in that one blog post, because the fedi power users of today are there because they don’t like meta or twitter. There will always be users on activitypub whether meta uses it or not, and nobody is forcing you to use their platform either.

      • haui
        7•8 months ago

        Very short sighted imo but you do you.

        Its not about destroying a service but its momentum which was successful with xmpp back in the day.

        Also, its not „fear mongering“ it is being cautious and denying the entity that invented corpo social media entry to a space one feels comfortable at, one instance at a time.

        I‘m part of the fedipact so I‘m biased. But maybe learn to respect others opinions. You can do what you like, we can too.

      • @morphballganon
        1•8 months ago

        I hope they’re paying you for your time worked spreading propaganda

        • Pasta Dental
          0•8 months ago

          Tell me how they are going to kill the fediverse then. What will prevent you from using the fediverse with the same people that use it now?

          If you’re not happy, defederate and live in your happy corner with 3 people. I’ll be on a social media that’s actually social, without actually using a platform from meta.

  • @[email protected]
    9•8 months ago

    here’s a good write up about why federating with threads is a bad idea, below is just a tidbit, I read it ages ago so just picked some dotpoints.

    Less emotionally, I think it’s unwise to assume that an organization that has…

    demonstrably and continuously made antisocial and sometimes deadly choices on behalf of billions of human beings and allowed its products to be weaponized by covert state-level operations behind multiple genocides and hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) of smaller persecutions, all while ducking meaningful oversight, lying about what they do and know, and treating their core extraction machines as fait-accompli inevitabilities that mustn’t be governed except in patently ineffective ways…

    …will be a good citizen after adopting a new, interoperable technical structure

    https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    2•8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    During the FediForum conference on Tuesday, Meta’s Peter Cottle showed off a brief demo of how users will eventually be able to connect their accounts and posts to the fediverse.

    As you can see in the video below, which FediForum shared with The Verge, Cottle can navigate to his Threads account settings and toggle on an option called “fediverse sharing.” Meta will then show a pop-up explaining what exactly the fediverse is, along with some disclaimers Meta will flag to users so they know what they’re getting into.

    First, Meta notes that users will need to have a public profile to toggle on the feature, something Instagram head Adam Mosseri has already mentioned.

    In other words, your post may still be visible on, say, a linked Mastodon server, even if you decide to delete it with Threads.

    “I think this is a downside of the protocol that we use today, but I think it’s important to let people know that if you post something and another server grabs a copy, we can’t necessarily enforce it,” Cottle says.

    The FediForum is an online event that gives developers the opportunity to show off what they’re working on in the fediverse.

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