Comment by loufe
1 day ago
I'm not sure why Threads makes your cut here, trading one walking negative externality of person in control for another is not really a sell to most folks.
1 day ago
I'm not sure why Threads makes your cut here, trading one walking negative externality of person in control for another is not really a sell to most folks.
it has Fediverse interop. Skepticism obviously is warranted towards the owners but you can at least interact with an open protocol or consume threads content from a Mastodon instance, say.
And Twitter used to have free API access. And Facebook Messenger used to have Jabber compatibility. I don't think those companies deserve any trust in regards of promoting them for their open initiatives.
Threads' activity pub gimmick is just a nice to have. It's the salad of the Big Mac. If you're going to eat it anyway, sure, glad it is there, but it doesn't make it deserve a spot in any serious discussion about healthy food alternatives.
FYI, threads does not have fediverse interop for European users.
As in, if you use threads and are in Europe, you have no option to enable mastodon to read threads replies.
> it has Fediverse interop.
It has been completely abandoned AFAIK. As expected, the good ol' classic EEE attempt, but it just didn't work due to decentralized architecture and just lack of actual capability from Meta.
Aren't many big mastodon instances talking about blocking Threads?
I don't like the mastodon culture but tbh I can't fault them for this move. Imagine if every post on r/all suddenly shows up on HN.
There is no one "mastodon culture". The server I'm on (indieweb.social) absolutely is not blocking Threads.
Facebook Messenger also used to have XMPP interop until they got the userbase they wanted and shut that down.