I'm going to go visit #Meta in San Francisco tomorrow for their "Threads Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue". Not exactly sure what to expect, or who else is participating, but I figure I can listen and learn and make up my mind afterwards.
They say it's Chatham House rules, meaning I can post this and whatever else interesting transpires. No NDA involved.
Regardless where you stand on the meta-and-the-fediverse question, I think having more info is better.
@renchap Idk why they reached out to me, and whether they reached out to 2 or 2000 people. I would guess it's either because of my role with FediForum or the Fediverse Test Suite project that I just got funded.
@J12t Thanks. It would be very nice if you can mention that we (the Mastodon project) are very interested in discussing interop with them. I e-mailed Benjamin Savage, the person representing Meta at the W3c meetings, but never got an answer :(
cc @andypiper
@renchap@andypiper you are both in Europe, right? So no chance to be there tomorrow in SF I assume, otherwise I could ask them to invite you. (No idea whether they would, and I don’t actually have a relationship yet with any of the organizers, but I could ask.)
Do I take it that you/mastodon has NOT been working closely with threads over the past months? If so, that would boggle my mind.
@J12t@andypiper There have been some "high level" discussions, but nothing on the technical side.
We do not have anybody from the team near SF, and do not burn any relationships over this :)
@supergrobi@renchap@J12t@andypiper I'll see if I can talk to them about it. Ben Savage is the W3C rep for Meta, and should be the right person to discuss with.
@renchap@evan@supergrobi@J12t I also mentioned (on Threads) that I’d love to talk with them - in response to a post they made about their potential API - saw lots of engagement on the post, but no follow-up despite providing my direct contact details.
@andypiper@renchap@evan any chance you have too 3 bullet items on the top of your mind what should happen between mastodon and threads, and why. To use as talking points tomorrow if the chance arises.
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