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[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wtf is threads?

[–] 4z01235@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Twitter clone by Facebook. The worst part is they're implementing ActivityPub and will federate with Lemmy and Mastodon instances.

[–] Puffymumpkins@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see no reason to not instantly defederate. This is 10 times worse that anything I see on Lemmygrad.ml

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, seriously, meta has nothing worthwhile to offer. And if they buy something worthwhile, it will stop being worthwhile.

[–] Pohl@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will they though? From what I can tell, Mastodon/lemmy users would get ad free access to threads content without turning over any personal data. If I’m not off base on that, that seems like a thing that meta is going to avoid.

I don’t want trash from meta crowding up the place and would probably leave a server that federated with threads but I am pretty sure that’s never going to happen.

[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish. That's what they could be aiming at.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly I think it's far more mundane than that. I suspect it's engineers at meta re-using an existing open codebase to kickstart a new product, then leadership further up the chain liking it for efficiency plus hedging on future compliance challenges

It could even be that ActivityPub solves infrastructure issues that have been quietly internally plaguing Meta and that's why they're excitedly embracing ActivityPub for Threads