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 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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