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Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But then if other instances don't want those features

In other words, if other instances don't want to have compatibility with the popular instances -- hence the issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's not really an issue though; or at least, I'm not yet convinced it's one. We're here because we don't want to have compatibility with Reddit, and I'm on Mastodon because I don't want to have compatibility with Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

We're here

Are we though? Because it looks like you're on kbin and I'm on slrpnk.

If either one of our instances decides to implement proprietary features that Threads creates (the second E in EEE) and the other one doesn't, that could break the experience of us being "here" together.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And we're free to move to another instance that has the access, or lack thereof, that we want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yup, thus fragmenting the crap out of the fediverse (the last E)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I always saw that as a feature, not a bug. The feature that prevents it from being the last E.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you see massive fragmentation as a feature then I really don't know what to tell you.

I guess enjoy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm a Linux user. That "fragmentation" is probably a good reason for why that hasn't been extinguished either. So as far as I can tell, yes, I'll enjoy the resilience that that implies without fear of it being extinguished.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I really don't think that's a meaningful comparison.

Federation relies on unity -- fragmentation ruins that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, you can stick to instances that federate with Threads even if/when they misbehave then, but having the option not to is pretty great, from my perspective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Sure, that's great while it's still just "instances that do federate with threads" and "instances that don't federate with threads".