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.
…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.
Without ads YET. Once the “masses” arrive, donations are no longer an option.
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.
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.
It’s 1.5M users on a single server. There are literally thousands of servers.