There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.

By Eugen Rochko (CEO/Founder @ Mastodon)

Today, Meta is launching its new microblogging platform called Threads. What is noteworthy about this launch is that Threads intends to become part of the decentralized social web by using the same standard protocol as Mastodon, ActivityPub. There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today…

  • The dogspaw @midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m not convinced meta is even intending to join the fediverse I think it’s far more likely they use activitypub to link Instagram Facebook and threads together and they never join the fediverse

    • dolphone@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      They could be trying to pull a double: not wasting a good crisis (Twitter) to syphon users, and Embrace/Extend/Extinguish the fediverse.

      These tech CEOs don’t deserve the benefit of Hanlon’s razor anymore. Too much evidence of Te contrary.

    • BlueNine@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      They don’t gain much adding fediverse users to the content mill. I have a hard time believing anyone at meta wants to give us access to “their” content without the reciprocal user data and ad attention in return. Hell, Reddit just imploded to rid itself of “freeloaders”.

      They saw an opportunity to take twitter’s users, they probably used activitypub because it was fast. If they start federating, we can decide how to handle it. They will win the war for users, but we can have a nice space that they aren’t allowed to touch if we want it.