A new platform, touted to be called “Threads”, that’s probably going to be very twitter like but on the fediverse. I think all instagram accounts will automatically or easily have a “Threads” account, so it’s probably being positioned as a text/twitter extension of instagram.
Not only is it coming, but probably in the next month or two. And it seems that they want to federate with mastodon instances and the fediverse at large. For example, one large mastodon instance admin has already revealed that they’ve spoken to reps from meta.
As far as business motivations, Meta and Zuck are competitors with Twitter, and this is a good opportunity for them to go for Twitter’s throat, while also using us (fediverse) as a weapon against BlueSky. Additionally, there may be some legal benefits to any anti-trust claims if they’re operating on an open protocol, despite potentially dominating it with the huge instagram membership/
Interesting. From what I’ve seen there’s a real divide over and many will welcome them or at least not want to defederate from them. There’s a real chance, IMO, that it splits the fediverse and creates a smaller periphery of anti-meta instances with a bigger mainstream center connected to meta and potentially other corporations (because even if Mozilla or Flipboard or Tumblr aren’t in favour of meta joining, they’ll still want to join where the majority are). If such a split happens, it will certainly be at least interesting to see what structure the network takes on.
Yep!
A new platform, touted to be called “Threads”, that’s probably going to be very twitter like but on the fediverse. I think all instagram accounts will automatically or easily have a “Threads” account, so it’s probably being positioned as a text/twitter extension of instagram.
Not only is it coming, but probably in the next month or two. And it seems that they want to federate with mastodon instances and the fediverse at large. For example, one large mastodon instance admin has already revealed that they’ve spoken to reps from meta.
As far as business motivations, Meta and Zuck are competitors with Twitter, and this is a good opportunity for them to go for Twitter’s throat, while also using us (fediverse) as a weapon against BlueSky. Additionally, there may be some legal benefits to any anti-trust claims if they’re operating on an open protocol, despite potentially dominating it with the huge instagram membership/
From what I’ve seen no one will welcome them
Interesting. From what I’ve seen there’s a real divide over and many will welcome them or at least not want to defederate from them. There’s a real chance, IMO, that it splits the fediverse and creates a smaller periphery of anti-meta instances with a bigger mainstream center connected to meta and potentially other corporations (because even if Mozilla or Flipboard or Tumblr aren’t in favour of meta joining, they’ll still want to join where the majority are). If such a split happens, it will certainly be at least interesting to see what structure the network takes on.