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Getting Tangled Up in Threads (wedistribute.org)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The Fediverse is currently divided over whether or not to block Threads. Here are some of the things people are worried about, some opportunities that might come from it, and what we need to do to prepare.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My understanding is that corporations are constantly trying and sometimes succeeding at influencing w3c standards to go in a direction which is favorable to themselves. For example increasing the legitimacy of DRM and surveillance. Developers of non-profit software (eg mozilla) then have to choose whether to be out of compliance or support nefarious technologies. If they choose against supporting the standards, then all users notice is that the application "doesn't work" on certain websites.

I don't necessarily know if running away and hiding is along term solution to this though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Federation is different from a browser. Even if Threads pushed through some protocol changes on their side, it would change anything for Lemmy, Peertube etc federating with the original protocol. They couldnt federate with Threads then, but clearly most users wouldnt mind.