Here’s everything we know about it so far:
- It will use ActivityPub.
- It will be a side app of Instagram.
- It will most likely be called Threads.
- Your Instagram verification status will transfer over.
- There will be easy discovery tools in place: Your Instagram followers will be able to follow you on Threads as well (they won’t transfer over automatically).
What do you think?
No, I don’t want corporate social networks who farm data.
I don’t want corporate social media full stop. As soon as there is a profit motive things will always slowly decay.
I just hope it’s viable to survive on grants/donors a la Wikipedia. Add some “awards” like on reddit, and that should help as well.
Aye, but these things need running like a business. They are too expensive and too complicated, they need oversight, planning, and proper governance if they aren’t single user personal instances. Opencollective seems to work well for Mastodon for funding and might work for Lemmy too.
Yeah, personally I would’ve gladly paid a few bucks a month for an unlimited API key that I could’ve used in Apollo for the utility I got out of Reddit if they also had some sort of data privacy policy. Casual users could’ve continued to use the site or the official app that dealt out ads.
It will use activity pub… until it gets adoption and then it will close the doors like they did with XMPP. Also its Facebook so anything they touch should be avoided like the plague. They have proven time and time again they are not to be trusted, they were in the Snowden docs & they have had numerous lawsuits against them.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/31/20940532/edward-snowden-facebook-nsa-whistleblower
“and if you don’t know , now you know”
I don’t see a problem so long as they do so in good faith - for example publishing full event contents to ActivityPub instead of adding a link back to the Facebook Threads app, which is basically what a lot of news sites do with their RSS feeds to get advertising money.
So long as they do that, it’s not really possible to do a rug-pull. There are far more Facebook users than Fediverse users after all, so it’s going to be advertising for the Fediverse for as long as this lasts and if users would like to remain part of it they’ll have to move to another server. That is, assuming it ends.
To answer the question though, I don’t care for microblogging personally and I don’t like Meta as a company so I won’t use it. I appreciate the scepticism but I feel optimistic.
so long as they do so in good faith
Good faith…
This is facebook we’re talking about here.
Meta has the capacity to make really evil products, let’s not start the EEE treadmill.
EEE?
Yeah, I worry about that… Let’s see
I hate Meta even more than Twitter, so no.
I know this is not the right audience for this, but that is an exceptional move on Meta’s side, and the timing is perfect. Meta has produced so much garbage with the metaverse and all that stuff, so this seems like the first good idea they had in a while.
No, I don’t thrive in person-oriented media, I’m only ok with topic-oriented media.
I think Kbin is interesting because it seems to bring these two kinds of media together.
Are you young? If so, it might just be micro-blogging you don’t like (since that’s all we get from person-oriented media these days).
Not. A. Chance. I will also encourage my mastodon instance to not federate with them.
No
There’s no way I’ll actually use the platform, but I personally have no qualms with federating with it on my instances so I can communicate with friends who may be using it that haven’t made the jump to the current fediverse.
Whether we like it or not, this is most likely the best chance for regular people to be introduced to the Fediverse and hopefully gain a good understanding of it, providing that Meta doesn’t hide it from people too much or make it complicated enough that people are “encouraged” to use their platform instead.
Yep, I think the best chance the fediverse has is for corporations to get on it and find ways to monetize it. I personally won’t be joining any servers that aren’t well behaved with my data and feed, but they are free to create such servers.
The only world where the fediverse is successful is one where corporations are on it too.
Normally, I would be against this, however, does the average instance owner have the money to maintain a server? No.
Nope. Meta is a blight on the world. Musk, Huffman should buy Meta and start a competition on who can make it circle the drain faster.
Not likely in the slightest.
I don’t want anything else related to Meta…
I stopped using Fb years ago and had to use it again not long ago because I moved countries and the demographic here can’t stop using Fb/Instagram/Whatsapp for everything related to business.
But if it uses ActivityPub (and from my understanding that’s decentralized), couldn’t I just use my Mastodon account to interact with people there? Would that mean that my Instagram (or, in this case, “Threads”) account can potentially communicate with Mastodon accs as well?
Typical corporate hopping on the bandwagon but having a locked down fork of it. Avoid
No. What’s the Web 2.0 version of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Because that. Oh, and because that company is toxic waste. No, worse that that. At least toxic waste comes with the promise that enough work would leave it inert.
The Meta Plan:
- We’re going to use ActivityPub because we love the Fediverse!!!
- Now we’re live, here’s some improvements to AP, now they’re not standard but we’re working closely with the AP guys. It would help if you all pleaded with them to accept these changes- they’re just to make things better!
- Yay! All the changes were implemented and we’ve formed the AP Council, we might invite some of the old AP guys to it.
We’ll come back in the future and hail you as a visionary.
It’s so sad, that what you’re saying isn’t totally new to me but has happened on a few occasions already:(
