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As you've probably heard, Threads (a fairly new social network from Facebook's parent company Meta) is testing integration with the fediverse. Depending on how you look at it, it's a great opportunity, a huge threat, or both!

Back in May and June, when Threads' first announced their plans, there were quite a few polls on Mastodon about people's reactions, most showing opinions split roughly equally. How do people feel today?

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 9 months ago

Having read that article earlier in another thread, it sounds much more like the devs working on XMPP killed it themselves by cowtowing to whatever the fuck Google was doing instead of continuing their own forks because they didn't want to lose the users gained through Google Talk by simply not caring about it. Greed killed it, but the greed wasn't Google's alone.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So devs targeting Google users is greed.

Instances targeting Meta users is smart?

this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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