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misk OP , 7 months ago to technology in McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup

Article added to post body now.

misk , 7 months ago to technology in Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

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.

misk , 7 months ago to technology in Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

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

misk , 7 months ago to fediverse in How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

Yes, it was a good alternative, and it remains good alternative now although Matrix seems way more popular these days. Nothing really changed regardless of adopting XMPP because with a hindsight we know that for tech giants it’s the platform and not protocol that captures mainstream popularity:

misk , 7 months ago to technology in Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

I’m getting an impression you’re not using Mastodon. Vast majority of Mastodon users are there for a very specific reason, to decouple from corporate social networks, and won’t switch, period.

My optimism is grounded on having reasons to believe Meta is implementing Activity Pub so that EU regulators will allow them to operate here depending on whether Meta plays nice.

misk , 7 months ago to fediverse in How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

The article lacks some details that are inconvenient to the point it makes. What was the state of XMPP before being adopted by tech giants and after they dropped it / walled it off? What could be done to prevent it?

misk , 7 months ago to technology in Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

The whole argument is that Meta will do whatever they want with their implementation of Activity Pub and lacks any further details. Blast radius of what? How does that affect existing Mastodon instances? Do they lose anything compared to what they have now?

Threads doesn’t need Mastodon users because it has orders of magnitude more already. Mastodon has unique competitive advantage, for example no ads, that could compel Threads users to switch with little friction. It might turn out that Threads will offer things Mastodon won’t on principle (follower and notification management for huge accounts) which might actually make whole ecosystem more healthy and diverse.

Really, it’s best to see what’s going to happen. I’m optimistic because I think open alternatives are generally better and will win long term.

misk , 7 months ago to technology in Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

How does defederating prevent that from happening anyway?

misk , 7 months ago to technology in Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

blog.joinmastodon.org/…/what-to-know-about-thread…

joinmastodon.org/en/about

mastodon.social/about

misk , 7 months ago to technology in Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

If they opened as read only then they created API in a most convoluted way possible. If that ridonculous claim is true then I wonder when we see first third party Threads apps.

misk , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to technology in Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

There’s one comment speaking about EEE which regurgitated talking points from that one blog post, with author missing the point on why XMPP was unsuccessful. Nothing else but it could be because my instance doesn’t federate with some weirdo instances.

misk , 7 months ago to technology in Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

This is a lot of text about Meta being evil which nobody disputes. But you didn’t answer the question.

misk , 7 months ago to technology in Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

Mastodon.social, the biggest instance ran by Mastodon devs didn’t and encourages wait and see approach.

misk , 7 months ago to technology in Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

It’s like blocking e-mails from Google. People can’t take a win.

misk , 7 months ago to technology in Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

Pretty cool. I keep saying that this is a win for open standards and Meta probably does this to appease EU regulators. It’s no surprise that this happens as Threads launches In Europe.