A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out"
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The results so far are certainly encouraging!

When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse “soon”.

But on July 14, @alexeheath of the Verge reported that Meta’s saying ActivityPub integration’s “a long way out”. Hey wait a second. Make up your mind already!

From the perspective of the “free fediverse” that’s not welcoming Meta, the new positioning that ActivityPub integration is “a long way out” is encouraging. OK, it’s not as good as “when hell freezes over,” but it’s a heckuva lot better than “soon.” In fact, I’d go so far as to say “a long way out” is a clear victory for the free fediverse’s cause.

  • HughJanus
    52·
    1 year ago

    So that…people will use it?

    I mean the whole purpose of social media is to interact with others.

    Maybe you prefer spending your time interacting with strangers. There was once a time when social media was actually about networking with friends and family and people you otherwise actually knew. That’s why I joined.

    Also to get more people AWAY from the tech giants and basically reimagine advertising and business as we know it.

    I mean really it’s good for everyone who’s not a conglomerate tech company.

    • pazukaza
      12·
      1 year ago

      Hm, so you’re giving a new API free of charge to all the AI tech giants in the era of AI. How is this bad for them?

      • HughJanus
        1·
        1 year ago

        …because people will realize there are better platforms without privacy violations and ads where they can still interact with their friends and transition.

        Like Mastodon and others have basically all of the benefits and none of the drawbacks.

        • pazukaza
          11·
          1 year ago

          Without ads YET. Once the “masses” arrive, donations are no longer an option.

          • HughJanus
            2·
            1 year ago

            I mean they could try it but people would just migrate to a different server so there would be no point.

            The main Mastodon instance has 1.5M users and no ads.

            • pazukaza
              11·
              1 year ago

              Is 1.5M users “the masses” to you? Reddit has like 400M active users monthly. That’s the scale I’m talking about.

              Registered users is a very bad metric too.

              • HughJanus
                1·
                1 year ago

                It’s 1.5M users on a single server. There are literally thousands of servers.