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Threads is using ActivityPub solely because it was available and stable to build with. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mrpants@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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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@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago

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@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

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.