▲ 558 ▼ Mastodon's Founder & CEO Gives His Thoughts on Meta's Threads (blog.joinmastodon.org) submitted 3 years ago by CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 195 comments fedilink hide all child comments Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I'm not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.
[–] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 years ago (3 children) So why using acticitypub at the first place? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Vlyn@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 years ago Marketing and content boost for the start maybe? Mastodon has come up a lot recently (hell, even in local radio), so Meta can use this to promote their own product. And already have content right there for users joining Threads, it's not a blank slate. After the initial boost and when sucking up millions of users they can just defederate and have their Facebook (or rather Twitter) 2.0. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Sl00k@programming.dev 5 points 3 years ago Extra data to scrape through their servers. permalink fedilink source parent [+] SamC@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Vlyn@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 years ago Marketing and content boost for the start maybe? Mastodon has come up a lot recently (hell, even in local radio), so Meta can use this to promote their own product. And already have content right there for users joining Threads, it's not a blank slate. After the initial boost and when sucking up millions of users they can just defederate and have their Facebook (or rather Twitter) 2.0. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sl00k@programming.dev 5 points 3 years ago Extra data to scrape through their servers. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] SamC@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent