86
Will Meta's Threads app federate with other services?
(lemmy.world)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
86 points (92.2% liked)
Ask Lemmy
26777 readers
498 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
How about instead we welcome them into the Fediverse?
If they introduce an improvement and release it to the Fediverse for free, and forever, then we all gain.
If they introduce an improvement and keep it proprietary then we can blast them.
No. Meta is shit. End of story.
I swear the shillbots are trying every time the topic comes up
While I appreciate the positivity, we also have to remember that federated networks are in part a direct rebuke of corporate-owned social media in general. They have a lot of reason to try and weasel in for profit -- and such weaseling is directly antithetical to the reason all of this exists. So in my view, there is good reason not to blindly accept the Trojan Horse of Meta in this situation.
At the very least content quality will suffer switch I'm concerned about
It would still be up to the admins/devs to introduce those features to their respective instances. There is nothing preventing the integration of innovative features whilst still keeping the instances entirely separate.
An improvement under Foss won't happen. It is all closed source for them. At most it will be "buggy implementations trying to follow what the majority of users are using under zuck" and then we will be doing nothing but free q&a for zuck
I’m also not exactly seeing what the fuss is about. It might end up being a net positive for everyone. It also might end up being shitty, in which case the Fediverse and that Thread thing will probably divorce one way or another, probably by defederation of each other, but neither would die. Doesn’t seem like there’s much downside.
You didn't mention your knowledge of how Google killed the federated software xmpp in your comment. As such, I think you should read one of the articles about how to kill the fediverse before you say "let's be optimistic about how zuck treats his competition so they can continue to operate adjacently"
I actually read that article you’re thinking about right after posting this comment, and I have to say it was pretty compelling. I’d say we still don’t know Meta’s intentions so it’s all just guessing (reminder that Google built GMail and yet email is still around), but I definitely understand better the caution now.