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Re:Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours by poisonborz on Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:13AM (#36613258)
"We plan to support ActivityPub"

"They want to kill ActivityPub!"

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Re:Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours by Tijdreiziger on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:07AM (#36614556)
Well, we've seen this playbook before with XMPP.
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Re:Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours by poisonborz on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:22AM (#36614708)
If a protocol is killed because a single megacorp starts to use it and then drops it, then who's at fault? XMPP was just a hard to use, outdated protocol.
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Re:Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours by Tijdreiziger on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:55AM (#36615807)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
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