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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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[–] TheBaldness@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems to me that the only reason Meta would embrace ActivityPub is so they can federate and scrape our data from the fediverse. Not only would I not use their platform, but I would block my instance from federating with them.

[–] Acetamide@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it is safe to assume that's happening now anyway. As long as anyone can access the data at the moment, they will too.

[–] TheBaldness@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

True. Now you've got me thinking of ways to identify and prevent accounts from scraping data. I don't see any way to do that other than rate-limiting, which just delays the problem rather than solving it.