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Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ (techcrunch.com)
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"Threads is deepening its ties to the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which powers services like X alternative Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipboard and other apps. On Wednesday, Meta announced that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own. In addition, posts that originated through the Threads API, like those created via third-party apps and scheduling services, will now be syndicated to the fediverse. The latter had previously been announced via an in-app message informing users that API posts would be shared to the fediverse starting on August 28."

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[-] flancian@social.coop 4 points 2 weeks ago

@Dirk @xelar thanks for your view, question: defederating with threads seems reasonable, but why would you defederate "second level" like this? I ask as the instance I'm in decided not to defederate with threads for now and I'm personally OK with that.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

A is defederated from Threads, but federates with B. And B federates with Threads. Now Meta can cash out on your data via B.

[-] heluecht@pirati.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago

@flancian @Dirk Threads has about 200 million monthly users, 33 million daily users. The fediverse has just under 1 million monthly users. Do you really think that 0.5% has any relevance to Meta?

Also: What data do you think Meta will be able to use - and for what? They can't use this data to serve you ads, simply because they don't know you. They can't track you around the web because you don't have a Meta account.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Threads has about 200 million monthly users, 33 million daily users. The fediverse has just under 1 million monthly users. Do you really think that 0.5% has any relevance to Meta?

Do you really think they would care about those users when they extend and extinguish the Fediverse?

[-] heluecht@pirati.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago

@Dirk How should they achieve it? The Fediverse contains of a lot of different systems that offer so much more than Threads could ever do.

[-] bilb@lem.monster 0 points 2 weeks ago

Nobody can ever explain how EEE could work in this scenario. They just parrot it and stop thinking.

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