A year? You’ll put your content on Mastodon but won’t let us communicate properly for a year? Why? You shouldn’t have released the first part yet, federation for Threads obviously isn’t ready.
Threads has clearly been launched to capitalise on Elon Musk’s crazy behaviour - they would have waited normally but there’s a big opportunity to grow right now.
Mastodon doesn’t have a choice. ActivityPub is an open protocol. They can choose to defederate with Threads, but that’s done at the individual server level.
I think the entire point was actually that no single party can unilaterally make that decision. People who want to interact with Meta can, and those who don't can simply not.
If you don't wanna deal with them, be on a server that doesn't federate with them.
Facebook can fuck themselves. Fuck you Zuckerberg; traitor and threat to democracy. The same Mark Zuckerberg who started a platform that gave racists and pedophile a safe haven.
Their timeline is gradual ActivityPub implementation over the next year.
Mosseri says the updates will roll out “in stages,” and he recognizes that the “better part of a year” timeline is a long one. “That’s a lot longer than I, or anybody on the team, wants, but it’s the reality given all the other work we need to be balance,” he says.
I was so heartbroken once I saw the Mastodon handle of Jack Saint (leftist youtuber), only to the last post of his being "I'm moving to BlueSky". I'm also asked WhiteLeaf (worker coop behind leftist streamers's stuff) if they thought on starting their own Mastodon or other instance.
The other side is Facebook Messenger started out as federated XMPP until it got big enough, then it changed the backend it’s using to a proprietary one
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