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What is your personal opinion on Threads implementing ActivityPub? (burggit.moe)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Meta recently launched Threads in a seemingly rushed state likely aiming to capitalize on Twitter's recent actions, missing features such as Digital Markets Act compliance and ActivityPub support.

Some communities have decided to preemptively defederate them as soon as that gets implemented under fears of them repeating what google did with XMPP by using "Embrace, Expand until no one else can keep up" tactics, while others have claimed those fears are overblown.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In theory good because we absolutely need interoperability between services.

In practice I know this is just meta trying to find a way to harvest data on as many users as possible. I hate that if I interact with a user on threads that likely means Facebook is getting my data which sucks because I want the service to be open but I don't want to subject myself to privacy invasion.

Plus the whole embrace, expand, extinguish thing which I don't think is overblown at all. It's literally how these corporations work by design.