A new platform, touted to be called "Threads", that's probably going to be very twitter like but on the fediverse. I think all instagram accounts will automatically or easily have a "Threads" account, so it's probably being positioned as a text/twitter extension of instagram.

Not only is it coming, but probably in the next month or two. And it seems that they want to federate with mastodon instances and the fediverse at large. For example, one large mastodon instance admin has already revealed that they've spoken to reps from meta.

As far as business motivations, Meta and Zuck are competitors with Twitter, and this is a good opportunity for them to go for Twitter's throat, while also using us (fediverse) as a weapon against BlueSky. Additionally, there may be some legal benefits to any anti-trust claims if they're operating on an open protocol, despite potentially dominating it with the huge instagram membership/

[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From what I've seen no one will welcome them

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. From what I've seen there's a real divide over and many will welcome them or at least not want to defederate from them. There's a real chance, IMO, that it splits the fediverse and creates a smaller periphery of anti-meta instances with a bigger mainstream center connected to meta and potentially other corporations (because even if Mozilla or Flipboard or Tumblr aren't in favour of meta joining, they'll still want to join where the majority are). If such a split happens, it will certainly be at least interesting to see what structure the network takes on.

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

Of it's actually federated (a claim I find incredibly dubious) none of that would matter though right? Disengaging from it would be as simple as choosing not to engage with the instance(S), it would create more awareness for the Fediverse, and serve as an on boarding platform to introduce new users and increase content and interactions across the fediverse.

But this is Meta, the single most corpo mega Corp involved In social media; so I feel pretty confident there's a MALICOUS goal in mind I'm just not considering.

[–] Kellamity@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

The problem will be getting your general insta user used to the concept of the fediverse. I mean, i came here voluntarily from reddit and ive put effort into understanding it and im still confused a bit

How do they plan on integrating everybody's insta account without mass confusion?

Hell, this makes me kinda anxious about how my insta will work and i have a headstart haha