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Meta will be releasing a Twitter clone/competitor this summer. Will you join? (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by cih@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Here's everything we know about it so far:

  • It will use ActivityPub.
  • It will be a side app of Instagram.
  • It will most likely be called Threads.
  • Your Instagram verification status will transfer over.
  • There will be easy discovery tools in place: Your Instagram followers will be able to follow you on Threads as well (they won't transfer over automatically).

What do you think?

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[–] jadedctrl@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I hope it very much doesn’t get defederated. Meta’s service would have less of a lock-in effect if it could communicate with other servers. The primary reason people stick to platforms like Facebook & co. is that their friends and family are on it; but if they can keep talking to them on a different platform, they’re suddenly much more susceptible to ditching Meta and ditching apathy in regards to privacy.

Be seemingly friendly to Meta and any other social media company that starts using ActivityPub — so that we can get normies to ditch them and join the libre side. :)

(ofc, this position is on a case-by-case basis and hinges on how exactly federation is handled by the service at hand. We'll see!)