I only partly live under a rock, so I’ve now heard that the Facebooks is making Threads, and it’ll talk to Mastodon.

Any idea how to keep them from taking over? Apparently, you’re a weirdo these days if you use Firefox, Brave/Qwant, and trust FLOSS > proprietary.

  • rmam@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Threads will only talk to Mastodon et al. for as long as the protocol remains compatible and servers allow it to federate. My guess is that one or the other of those things won’t be true for long.

    It sounds like they got Threads to talk to Mastodon to use it to seed content. Once they jumpstart Threads I wouldn’t be surprised if they moved from embracing either straight to extinguish or to quietly cutting it off.