You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon

Re:You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You:... by kybernetikos on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @02:45AM (#36677240)

I believe that the only way the fediverse avoids naturally centralising forces long term is if the value of federating with the network is too big for anyone to give up. The value of the network increases with the number of participants.

Defederating from any service prepared to federate needs to be a really extreme measure taken rarely for the network to build the strength it will need to weather the centralising forces that will come.

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Re:You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You:... by Shawnj2 on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @03:30AM (#36691434)

From the article it seems like Meta is adding ActivityPub support into threads as a way to let people use Threads to talk to Mastodon users and not the other way around. That’s a pretty good reason to defederate from Threads if you run a Mastodon server

It seems like we will end up with two fediverses- most of the one as we know it, and a much smaller one that can talk to Threads.

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Re:You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You:... by pas on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @11:00AM (#36695560)

If I can follow my friends on Instagram from my Mastodon account it seems like a good outcome. Also, if others can easily share/repost/comment/quote content from Threads on Mastodon, that again seems like a nice outcome to me.

How Threads will implement "replies from Mastodon" is not really a question I care about. (Maybe I should?)

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Re:You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You:... by Shawnj2 on Sunday July 16, 2023 @03:35PM (#36750633)

That would be great but it’s most likely not going to work that way- Meta will never let you use Mastodon to act as a threads client so any integration between the two will probably let people view mastodon from threads but not vice versa (except replies)

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Re:You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You:... by pas on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:20AM (#36785839)

Unlikely as in that case Mastodon servers will have almost no reason to not defederate and a lot to do so.

Meta, as the submitted essay argues, probably cares more about the optics than going after those 0.1% of users.

But of course, who knows what's actually going through Zuck's head. (Other than the fists of other martial arts trainees.)

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