XSF Discussion - 2023-07-12


  1. Seve

    Has there been any discussion here about the new Threads social network? I am curious about the section "Compatible with Interoperable Networks " in here: https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/threads-instagram-text-feature They could place ads in the app and monetize it somehow, arguing that its the best "client" out there, for example. And I assume most of their users would not care if there's federation or not, but still I wonder why such a company would now be apparently taking some steps towards it?

  2. MSavoritias fae.ve

    because EU requires it with the market act

  3. MSavoritias fae.ve

    there are gatekeepers that need to have an open api to their users

  4. MSavoritias fae.ve

    they will also federate with whatsapp and instagram later. by law

  5. MSavoritias fae.ve

    whatsapp and instagram will federate also later. by law

  6. pep.

    There's been too many mentions of Threads and Facebook lately on Mastodon, I'm getting annoyed :x Basically my whole TL is defederating them, which is good.

  7. jonas’

    pep., mute the #threads #facebook #meta hashtags?

  8. pep.

    Not entirely sure where to do that, but I'm gonna have a look yeah

  9. MSavoritias fae.ve

    yeah you can "filter" any words you want from your feeds

  10. MSavoritias fae.ve

    i have a lot of them 😛

  11. mjk

    > because EU requires it with the market act I honestly don't think they'd be proactive on that front so quickly, so my bet is on EEE

  12. mjk

    > because EU requires it with the market act I honestly don't think they'd be proactive on that front so quickly, so my bet is on EEE as the reason

  13. mjk

    also, why spend resources on supporting a different protocol than MLS/MIMI/whatchamacallit that's gonna be de-facto mandatory to implement interop in their other platforms? a protocol that doesn't have e2ee messaging, and, from what I gather, a very rudimentary IM support

  14. mjk

    the only answer that makes sense to me is EEE