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Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub (daringfireball.net)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Adam Mosseri:

Second, threads posted by me and a few members of the Threads team will be available on other fediverse platforms like Mastodon starting this week. This test is a small but meaningful step towards making Threads interoperable with other apps using ActivityPub — we’re committed to doing this so that people can find community and engage with the content most relevant to them, no matter what app they use.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

selling off user data (i.e. all things that most of us came here to escape from)

Since almost everything on the Fediverse is open for all to see, anyone can already be mining the data just by setting up their own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon. This might make it difficult to sell fediverse-generated data for profit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure they have a plan (otherwise they wouldn't be doing it!), maybe it relies on using their app which also has your real name and phone number, maybe it's for some legal loophole which means all fediverse users technically agree to their terms just by federating. I don't know what they're up to, but given their previous behaviour I think it's safer not to even let them try!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Maybe it's to avoid getting hit by antitrust sanctions and some EU legislation:

"Look, we're open, we're using the same ActivityPub protocol as thousands of others, our users can choose to leave whenever they want" - Meta, probably

(...then 99% of their users proceed to DGAF and stay on Threads)