Link to: https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C01zMgWp4V-

Adam Mosseri:

Second, threads posted by me and a few members of the Threads team will be available on other fediverse platforms like Mastodon starting this week. This test is a small but meaningful step towards making Threads interoperable with other apps using ActivityPub — we’re committed to doing this so that people can find community and engage with the content most relevant to them, no matter what app they use.

    • floofloof ( floofloof@lemmy.ca ) English
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      3 years ago

      selling off user data (i.e. all things that most of us came here to escape from)

      Since almost everything on the Fediverse is open for all to see, anyone can already be mining the data just by setting up their own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon. This might make it difficult to sell fediverse-generated data for profit.

        • jarfil ( jarfil@beehaw.org ) 
          2·
          3 years ago

          Maybe it’s to avoid getting hit by antitrust sanctions and some EU legislation:

          “Look, we’re open, we’re using the same ActivityPub protocol as thousands of others, our users can choose to leave whenever they want” - Meta, probably

          (…then 99% of their users proceed to DGAF and stay on Threads)

    • 🐝bownage [they/he] ( bownage@beehaw.org ) 
      4·
      3 years ago

      Ok yeah make sense! I’m definitely not a fan of Facebook’s and Meta’s data policies either.

      But how is anyone going to control a decentralised platform tho? What you’re describing seems like it would only apply to users on instances controlled by Meta, i.e. on threads itself. Or maybe I still don’t understand how the fediverse works.