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Mastodon's official stance on Threads (blog.joinmastodon.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (35 children)

Can someone explain to me why people are so violently opposed to this?

If Threads blows up, and ActivityPub is integrated, you'll have access to all of it through any federated instance. No need to let Meta sap all your data to view it or communicate with it's users. Meta can't kill ActivityPub or force us onto Threads, just abandon it and leave us back where we are today. If you don't like the Meta users, just make or join an instance that isn't federated.

Anyone can scrape the metaverse data and use it for whatever, Meta included. Them implementing ActivityPub doesn't change anything about that.

Look I don't like Meta as much as the next guy, but this all just seems like illogical gatekeeping

Edit: I understand now, see: XMPP and Google. Good article someone replied to me with, down below.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Step 1: Threads starts federating with mastodon

Step 2: mastodon users happily engage with threads, letting it become the biggest fediverse instance

Step 3: threads stops federating with mastodon

Step 4: mastodon users switch over to threads where all conversation is happening, leaving the fediverse deserted

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More than 5 million people signed up within hours, let's assume they will have 30 million users by the end of the month. I'm sure there are Mastodon users will consider switching to Threads.

https://www.marketing-interactive.com/meta-threads-garners-5-million-signups-in-first-few-hours

And not to mention the Threads app is a privacy nightmare. I'm sure they can figure out any fediverse user, If fediverse server remains federated with meta server.