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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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[–] imkmiaw@lemmy.fmhy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't want anything else related to Meta...

I stopped using Fb years ago and had to use it again not long ago because I moved countries and the demographic here can't stop using Fb/Instagram/Whatsapp for everything related to business.

But if it uses ActivityPub (and from my understanding that's decentralized), couldn't I just use my Mastodon account to interact with people there? Would that mean that my Instagram (or, in this case, "Threads") account can potentially communicate with Mastodon accs as well?

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

Typical corporate hopping on the bandwagon but having a locked down fork of it. Avoid

[–] esty@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

meta Barcelona will be federated and in the demo screenshots that leaked you can see a user from metas platform replying to someone on mastodon.social