Twitter users have been facing a lot of issues over the past few months, but things got even worse last…
be careful guys with META, they can mess things up
https://fabulous.systems/posts/2023/06/meta-is-a-danger-to-the-fediverse/
https://fediversereport.com/meta-plans-on-joining-the-fediverse-the-responses/
The vultures are circling.
The fediverse needs central planning otherwise the corpos just going to take it over via providing stable and fast infra for free.
Even a centralised planning organisation can only do so much against money and exploitation here. We’ve seen this already with the W3C and various companies dominating planning and uptake of web standards.
I’m of the opinion that prevention measures needs to be built into the system, but I dont know what form that might take.
No word on if it’ll launch federated?
I can’t see a large corporation wanting anything to do with the fediverse, they want their own playing field they can fully control to their liking.
Edit: just saw that their app is ActivityPub based. Sooo I guess they are joining the fediverse? Really not happy about this, the last thing we need here is some soulless corporation infecting our growing community.
I think it will be both. Accounts created with Threads will have their own walled garden but will have the option of interacting with other fediverse communities.
There is a very real possibility that it will be designed in such a way that it’s initially federated, but will slowly get to a point where they can see mastodon posts but mastodon can’t see their posts. (Adding non-activitypub features and standards) All the benefit of having an already active userbase with none of the work for organic growth, and none of the downsides of competition in the long term.
This is exactly it, and now what I’m afraid of since they are looking at the fediverse.