Link to: https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C01zMgWp4V-

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.

  • 🐝bownage [they/he]@beehaw.org
    15·
    2 years ago

    Can you explain how it’s 100% super obvious? I thought a popular platform with many users entering the fediverse might be good for exposure but it seems like the consensus here is that it’s actually bad. Help me understand how it’s bad?

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        9·
        2 years ago

        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.

          • jarfil@beehaw.org
            2·
            2 years 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)

      • 🐝bownage [they/he]@beehaw.org
        4·
        2 years ago

        Ok yeah make sense! I’m definitely not a fan of Facebook’s and Meta’s data policies either.

        But how is anyone going to control a decentralised platform tho? What you’re describing seems like it would only apply to users on instances controlled by Meta, i.e. on threads itself. Or maybe I still don’t understand how the fediverse works.

          • atocci@kbin.social
            2·
            2 years ago

            That doesn’t really apply to Lemmy’s content though, since unlike Lemmy.world, Threads users won’t be able to create /c/ communities. If a Threads user wants to post to a community in a way that Lemmy recognizes them, they’ll have to post it to one under a Lemmy instance’s control, or Lemmy users won’t see a thing.