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Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse
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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
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What's Threads and why do we need in in the fediverse? I don't have Facebook and don't use any Meta products, so I'm clueless ? Is it like closed source Mastodon or Lemmy?
Its a microblogging platform like mastodon and no, we don't need it in the fediverse. There's exactly one explanation for why they would want to join.
Remember, if Meta can collect your data this way, any bad actor or government can as well.
It's not about collecting data, the fediverse freely shares all its data by nature.
Threads has a lot more users and Meta would use that to attack smaller instances, a bit like what Lemmy world was doing a few months ago.
The biggest instances usually have the most communities and if they ban other instances, rival members are more likely to migrate over than to create copy cat communities.
It's not terrible at the moment but bringing in threads is like throwing a shark in a shrimp tank.