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Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Pretty cool at first glance. Not so cool when they have pulled in enough users and then remove the federation.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They have orders of magnitude more users than all Mastodon instances combined already.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Part of that is only because any and all Instagram accounts are also considered Threads accounts. I have a feeling active users is probably in a similar ballpark

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    BS. There are 140 mil Threads accounts and over 2 bil Instagram accounts. You can create Threads account with Instagram and for a time they couldn't be decouple but that changed too.

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