Threads’ fediverse plans are coming together.
  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I do want to kind of make a plea that I think everyone on the team has really good intentions.

    Maybe the team has good intentions. Zuck the Fuck certainly doesn’t

  • Vipsu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    While Meta might have ulterior motives for fediverse integration this might also be just one way to comply with Europes new DMA regulation.

    • cabbage@piefed.social
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      7 months ago

      The EU is pushing antitrust against tech monopolies for all it’s worth. For anyone with half an eye on the EU it’s glaringly obvious why Meta is doing this, and all the conspiracy theorists stumbling over each other on the Fediverse just look like clowns.

      It’s not about EEE, it’s not about flooding the Fediverse with trolls (?) or about taking over the market share of Mastodon (??). It’s about making a genuine-looking claim that they are not monopolist. Same reason they are working on the Signal protocol for WhatsApp.

      It’s not exactly rocket science. It’s just successful regulation.

  • jadedctrl@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 months ago

    In other words, your post may still be visible on, say, a linked Mastodon server, even if you decide to delete it with Threads.

    “I think this is a downside of the protocol that we use today, but I think it’s important to let people know that if you post something and another server grabs a copy, we can’t necessarily enforce it,” Cottle says.

    … it’s not a downside of the protocol, it’s just a literal impossibility. Once someone’s downloaded something, you can’t do a thing to take it back.

  • RedStrider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    if threads does federate(i’ll believe it when i see it) im glad i’ll have a way to interact with irls who don’t know what a mastodon is without having to make an account on fb’s stuff.

    if they ever do anything fishy, and they will. i’ll move instances.