Threads is making moves for Mastodon integration

Do we really want Facebook users just for the growth? Quality beats quantity.

Fediverse? Do you mean, the Threadiverse?

I'm being cheeky to illustrate a point - Threads will almost certainly harm the overall health of the Fediverse in the long run, with users relying increasingly more on Threads' instance[s] to use Mastodon services and connect to people.

Seriously, how does that dude manage to look so inhuman? He looks like someone pretending to be human and trying really hard, but missing that one last bit.

Nope. Please fuck off, thank you.

So the hate for this is now gone and replaced with praise? What happened to all the posts about how this is an attack on TNT frediverse when Meta first announced this integration?

already defederated

Threads is making its first moves to EEE the Fediverse.

Someone did a breakdown here, I still think it's a great idea to defed from them immediately.

https://wedistribute.org/2023/08/threads-new-terms-affects-the-fediverse/

Fuck off. Defederate these guys.

And just remember that a substantial amount of Lemmy users want this, because they are too blind, childish and immature to see the very real negative consequences such a move will have.

But they only care because they're either bots or hopelessly stupid simps.

Lmao.

They will be able to dictate how mastodon works of they become larger than the rest of the instances. Their stake in the network will make them more powerful than all the other instances combined.

I dislike how the comment section is full of people hating on Mastodon people

Mastodon wearing the face of activitypub and fediverse really leads everyone to think it's only mastodon. Replace mastodon with activitypub, because there's lots of projects that are actually innovating instead of Mastodons (x)shitter cloning.

So seeing as the name is still threads does that mean he won the lawsuit someone filed against them to change the name as someone else already had that name for their product/company?

Like rules only exist if you're not a billionaire I guess...

I will delete my account.

Robo Zucks face on the article actually scared me when I first saw it.

Good news: This will result in more average-user understanding of the fediverse, getting past the consistent issue of people not understanding it. It will increase the Fediverse's usershare by a considerable amount. And to top it all off, it will probably cause a snowball which will make the Fediverse as a whole eclipse twitter.

Bad news: This is being done by facebook, willingly. Any company that is taking action like this is doing so for their own benefit and no one elses. This may be detrimental to the Fediverse in the long run if users opt to all just jump on to Threads because of some obnoxious 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish' tactic they may or may not pull in the future.

Judging by the comments on that post, they're just trying to run away from all the porn bots.

Would it be possible for the mastodon software to detect if users are connecting via threads and replace all images in posts with a different image - one that says e.g. telling people that Zuckerberg doesn't care about raising tennage suicide rates through Instagram or something similar.

To all the people wondering about metas intentions in this it's not the big bad corporation taking down the upstart competition. All the people saying it's EEE can't show any sign metas doing this or even wants to because the strategy doesn't work, any time a company does it it either doesn't take off or they get brought up on anti-trust laws. Show me a standard that was destroyed by EEE and I'll show you a standard that never took off in the first place. All the usual examples given, email, java, html, remain open standards to this day.

The truth is the fediverse isn't competition to meta, it's a fraction of the size and is populated by users who would never use meta services in the first place. They can pretend it's a competitor though. If twitter does actually collapse and people switch to threads meta will face anti-trust suits for owning the three largest social media platforms. If they add activity pub support though they can point to the fediverse and say it's competition, even if it's only 1 % of the platform. They also have to deal with EU interoperability laws that might start getting enforced.

TL;DR this is about compliance for meta, not conquest.

So is there a way to follow someone on Threads now? Or at least get one's instance to load a post? Where are the details of this beyond Zuckerberg's post?

That's great news