Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse
Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse
Meta promised to make Threads compatible with the decentralized protocol underlying Mastodon. Proponents of interoperable social media can’t agree whether to welcome or fear it.
This is one of the better articles I've read on this subject, but there's still an underlying message of "joining Meta is inevitable since all online platforms want to be the biggest at any cost" - which I don't think is the case with the Fediverse.
To me, threads is inconsequential. It's just another twitter clone that I, and everyone else, doesn't need to bother with.
The paranoid part of me thinks this article is paid psychological manipulation in favour of threads by overstating the impact of it; but it's probably just a stupid article written by a dissociated journalist that's spent too much time around venture capitalists while also not really understanding the philosophy of FOSS.
I wouldn't put it past Meta to flood the zone with some of these "Fediverse is ultimately flawed" articles to try to wear people down.
Large tech companies only join protocols like this with the aim of killing them; any Mastodon instance worth its salt should defederate from Meta as soon as they go live with it.
Is this the borg coming to assimilate us?
Yaaaaaaawn