@Mastodon Threads?

@Mastodon If I may, this sentence is ambiguous

It seems to imply that Threads won't be available in the US, but Threads will definitely be available in the EU — not just at launch (source: https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-unspools-threads)

Maybe it's due to the syntax of the sentence, but I think a clarification/rewrite would be useful

@Mastodon Good explainer and questions and answers are not fluffy PR and pretty hard hitting and honest about the situation.

@Mastodon Thanks. This post is a little confusing though because you discuss Mastodon users following Threads users but then say Threads and Mastodon are not interoperable? So I guess I don't understand if I can follow Threads users or if they can follow me.

@Mastodon In short, it means nothing?

@Mastodon This is great. What this sounds like is that when Thread gets federated, we can follow those users on Mastodon to bypass all of Meta's ad and sponsored garbage.

@Mastodon How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

@Mastodon Thank you for (finally) making an official statement on Threads! This has, at least for me, cleared up a lot of uncertainty and misinformation surrounding the platform. ^^

@Mastodon Clear and to the point. Thank you.

@Mastodon I love Gargon

@Mastodon This is very helpful. Thanks for compiling and sharing the information.

@Mastodon This is interesting, thanks. So no change for Mastodon users initially. This article just came out about it too:

Instagram launches new Threads platform in direct competition with Twitter
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-06/threads-by-meta-to-rival-twitter/102561536

@Mastodon 👌

@Mastodon Thank you. I found this very clarifying.

@Mastodon

It might just be another social media platform, but the fact that Threads is saying it plans to integrate ActivityPub is encouraging. That sets it apart from others which are just another walled garden.

Assuming they implement it in such a way that allows it to communicate with the fediverse, of course. I'm cautiously optimistic though. If they put a big dent in Twitter, it might even force them to also integrate with the rest of the social internet.

@Mastodon A) it wasn't me nor anyone I know speculating how these apps work. B) any instances that intentionally connect to Facebook(it isn't Threads, it's Facebook. Stop saying that) in any way will be actively blocked, etc. The entirety of this conversation is dystopic and ridiculous.

How is this even a question? Who actually wants to know how to switch BACK to the networks we left to build this one?

@Mastodon I had no idea Threads was using ActivityPub! Twitter is going to die unless they follow suit.

@Mastodon it is not analogous to GoogleTalk and FB Messenger embracing XMPP then ditching it when they get enough traction.

It is more akin to Microsoft and Google offering email services and gaining such a dominant marketshare that they have rendered deliverability of email from small independent providers extremely difficult, to the point that even seasoned IT professionals are giving up and using Microsoft or Google platforms because managing your own server has become too difficult.

Yes, we all use the same SMTP protocol, but some SMTP servers are more equal than others, no matter how careful you are in picking a clean IP, setting up SPF records, DKIM signing and DMARC policies.

A handful of big players are taking control of the e-maik federation.

l sure hope ActivityPub does not suffer a similar fate.

With Meta "embracing" (first E in the proverbial EEE strategy) the Fediverse, the most obvious targets are microblogging (Pleroma, Mastodon, Calc/Misskey) and image sharing (PixelFed).

The concern of concentration already existed with larger instances like mastodon.social, but Meta entering the chat is a whole nother level.

@Mastodon I believe the most disappointed fact, is that Thread is not available in Europe

@Mastodon This is a great write up @Gargron - thank you!