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Threads is using ActivityPub solely because it was available and stable to build with. (self.main)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mrpants to c/main

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That's it. It's just the fastest springboard this garbage company had to get yet another social media platform out the door when they sensed blood in the water.

Edit: This is a response to people who think FB users will somehow discover the fediverse and be converted by this action. They won't.

Or that FB has noble goals in choosing AP or will somehow be forced to be better. They won't.

It's just good software.

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[–] MrScottyTay 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's cool, the internet needs to go the way of decentralised stuff, no matter which way it goes about it. Just because a big company has gone and done it doesn't mean it's an ultimately bad thing to happen. At the very least, this is a gateway for people to understand other activitypub services.

"Mastadon is just like Threads but with no big company behind it or ads..." Kind of thing.

[–] huiledolive 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think that many people worry about what Meta might be able to do wih all the data that they can access, and we don't know what they will do with it. We don't know what a Mastodon instance admin might do with the data either, but Meta has much more resources to use them.

[–] Anoril 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And what stops meta from getting your data now?

[–] Quills 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah if they wanted to scrape the fediverse it wouldn't be hard for them, and threads wouldn't even be necessary to do that

[–] thelsim 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, it's not so much about what they can do now, but what they will do in the future.

I'm not a very technical person (at least in this field). But I'm infinitely distrustful of anything Meta does and I consider it hubris if we think we're safe with the implementations we have now. They're talented and ruthless at what they do; making money out of you, whether you want to or not.

[–] kamenoko 2 points 1 year ago

They already have it and it's called browser fingerprinting.

[–] Quills 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nono, as a mastodon user what i see there is mainly a concern bout they EEE'ing the fediverse

Oh you said many people, yeah i guess that's true too

[–] MrScottyTay 6 points 1 year ago

Meta can access your data on the fediverse without thread federating though, they can just make a scraper if they really wanted to, and it wouldn't be hard, literally an afternoons worth of code.