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0 pointscmrdporcupine2y ago0 comments

It won't last -- if it even launches with this feature -- pretty sure.

As others have pointed out, most hosts will simply de-federate them pretty quickly anyways, and then it will become a useless feature that they turn off.

I suspect it will be one-way anyways, to capitalize on the existing content produced by Mastodon users out there already while they bootstrap. There's no way they'd offer their own content up into the fediverse without the ability to tie it to ads and engagement.

Given the cold reception they've gotten, it will be interesting to see if this feature even makes launch.

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dahwolf2y ago

The most realistic comment in the thread, you don't deserve these downvotes.

Threads development started last January. Quite obviously it's a rush job to capitalize on the fall of Twitter before BlueSky does.

They'll instantly fill it with a zillion Insta users to get a critical mass going and take things from there.

Surely they don't give a crap about any fediverse.

cmrdporcupineOP2y ago

The story I'm seeing around Mastodon is that in fact this feature will not launch until the fall.

Also that it they will only peer with hosts that sign an agreement with them. There is rumour of $$ involved.

I think you can guess how this will all shake out.

(Snarky aside: maybe Truth Social will federate with them?)

dahwolf2y ago

That sounds logical. Federation without conditions would make no sense at all for Meta. You could then run an ad-free Threads copy, create any client you want, easily train your AI on their content.

Surely if such deals materialize, many idealistic Mastodon instances will defederate with Meta. A few big Mastodon instances might not. Next, the idealistic Mastodon instances will defederate with the Meta-compatible Mastodon instances.

Which...makes large Mastodon instances pretty pointless. They'll be largely isolated from the rest of the Mastodon part of the fediverse. They can interact with Threads users, but in that case...why wouldn't users simply use Threads?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointscmrdporcupine2y ago0 comments

It won't last -- if it even launches with this feature -- pretty sure.

As others have pointed out, most hosts will simply de-federate them pretty quickly anyways, and then it will become a useless feature that they turn off.

Given the cold reception they've gotten, it will be interesting to see if this feature even makes launch.

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dahwolf2y ago

The most realistic comment in the thread, you don't deserve these downvotes.

Threads development started last January. Quite obviously it's a rush job to capitalize on the fall of Twitter before BlueSky does.

They'll instantly fill it with a zillion Insta users to get a critical mass going and take things from there.

Surely they don't give a crap about any fediverse.

cmrdporcupineOP2y ago

The story I'm seeing around Mastodon is that in fact this feature will not launch until the fall.

Also that it they will only peer with hosts that sign an agreement with them. There is rumour of $$ involved.

I think you can guess how this will all shake out.

(Snarky aside: maybe Truth Social will federate with them?)

dahwolf2y ago

That sounds logical. Federation without conditions would make no sense at all for Meta. You could then run an ad-free Threads copy, create any client you want, easily train your AI on their content.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse