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Some insights from Alex Stamos that I found quite interesting.

TL:DR;

He predicts the challenges will be as follows:

  1. Content Moderation: Enforcing actor and behavior-based content moderation will be difficult in the federated environment. The lack of metadata available in Federation makes it harder to stop spammers, troll farms, and abusers.

  2. Privacy Obligations: With Threads content being pulled down and cached by other servers, it becomes challenging to comply with right-to-data-deletion requirements, such as those imposed by GDPR. The Fediverse lacks mechanisms to enforce content deletion.

  3. Competing with Other Platforms: Meta may face difficulties in competing and reaching feature-parity with platforms like TikTok and Twitter while being bound by the feature set of ActivityPub.

Thoughts?

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[–] Chipthemonk@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I’m wondering what their motivation was for building it so that it could join the fediverse. I guess they recognize that the fediverse is the future, and they want their hand in that space.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Their goal is to consume the fediverse. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

The fediverse needs to collectively defederate with Meta the second it dips its toes in the water. If we allow it to metastasize here, we're done.

[–] kobra@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But why do they want to consume the fediverse?

The fedidb.org site says the fediverse has ~10m MAUs (a lot of which are probably already on Meta)

Threads got like 10m users on day 1.

It would be such a small increase in users/content for them to consume and most of the people here block ads anyway, so I feel like we’re their worst demographic.

[–] Cail@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

The term "nip it in the bud" comes to mind

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