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Let that sink in

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[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Well, ackshually..."
(they've not enabled ActivityPub yet, so technically not fedi... yet. But not only are they the biggest instance - it's larger than the entire fedi userbase put together)

[–] Spacebar@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So how will Meta attempt to kill activity pub in terms of embrace, extend, extinguish?

[–] ScottyB@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

"Look we are using ActivityPub, aren't we cool?"
"Look you can access other federated instances on our platform, isn't that cool?"
"All the best content is on our platform now, so we are removing the federation aspect"

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Boy I am generally against defederating but having that large a mass of humanity come in is making me rethink it.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

I've said it many times, anyone willing to give Meta even the tiniest bit of the slightest of the doubt is at best incredibly naive.

[–] niktemadur@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm going to repost here what I just ~~write~~ wrote elsewhere:

Meta's presence is corrosive by its' very nature.
There will be a sugar rush up front, diabetes down the road.
They WILL find a way to insert themselves more severely if and when this thing grows.

EDIT: typo

[–] mildpeach@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The power of the Fedi is that YOU, personally can block the whole domain with a click and it will never enter your feed. Don't sweat the little stuff and Threads is definitely the little stuff.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

yeah ultimately that is what I want. access to everything with with as much control as a user as is possible.

[–] swope@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Suddenly I'm recalling memories of AOL users showing up on EFnet IRC chats around 1996...

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

whats its url?

[–] Pohl@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn’t truth social activitypub based? Thread is going to be much bigger than truth, but yesterday I bet that this could have been said about the platform a disgraced former president uses for temper tantrums.

[–] jon@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I think Truth Social is based on Mastodon, but I don't think it federated.

[–] samadeleine@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@revampeduser I heard they just added every Instagram user automatically? Sounds like fake numbers to me.

[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

They did not, no. However, they do share accounts, so if you have Instagram already, you can just download the Threads app, open it, and immediately sign in with the same saved credentials as Instagram.

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