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A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out"
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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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Honestly this is why the whole “Meta will kill the fediverse” thing people were saying never really convinced me. They just don’t seem to care, I mean it’s been a month and they still have no real plans to actually federate.
A month isn't very long, they haven't even figured out their basic features - this was more a "maybe later this year" timeframe. It could be done quickly if they decided to start by reproducing mastodon and going from there, but building something that federates but is highly monetizable takes time - honestly they were probably pleased by the numbers and decided to go for monetization first
Making it clear they are unwelcome was the point though.
It seems they've put the idea on the back burner after we largely made our position clear, but it's not unlikely that they try to quietly federate down the road... Every time they think about it, we have to make them believe this would be more trouble than it's worth
I personally believe that Meta never intended Threads to be support Activitypub and just chose it so they could do the bare minimum to comply with the EU digital markets act.
@nave @theneverfox believing is not knowing is speculation is not helping
I mean, this is my area of expertise. Sure, it's speculation, but it's educated speculation. I'm intimately familiar with activity pub and the way large projects are brought into existence
Plus, following my recommendation if I'm wrong would at most be a slight amount of wasted effort, but ignoring it if I'm right could be a huge problem.
I'd call that helpful