It's ironic how #threads is giving their users the ability to free their content from a closed system, and the #fediverse--a supposedly "open" system--is blocking those users.
@schizanon but it's not that simple.... blocking #threads keeps the fediverse open, that is why it is being blocked....
Meta has a history of taking a product or something and twisting it to how it wants it, people are so wary nowadays. The news that facebook was snooping on snapchat data hasn't helped them either. I bet that facebook has snooped as much as it can on ALL of the platforms it sees as competitors
@3dcandy as far as "snooping" you know all of this is completely public right? Anyone in the world can scrape your fediverse posts. They don't need to let their user's content federate to do that.
@schizanon yep - know that too - but doing it to other platforms is illegal in the US - so expect a hefty fine to go metas way. I understand what you are saying, but history has shown how meta ruins platforms/products by swallowing them up and/or buying them
@schizanon yep - it is pre-emptive. If #threads is allowed to federate with everyone you can pretty much bet that #activitypub and the fediverse won't stay open for long
@3dcandy if you wanted it to be open you wouldn't want to close it. You don't though. You want it closed, just closed to the type of people you don't like.
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