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Johannes Ernst

And that, I believe, is the real reason #Meta is implementing #activitypub: So that they can cross-post across all their apps, such as from #Facebook to #Threads, without running afoul of antitrust law specifically in the EU.

@Sarahp here has a piece on that cross-posting, although she does not mention ActivityPub. (Which they may or may not use for that purpose between their own apps .. whether they do is not really important)

techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/meta

22 February at 4:30 | Open on social.coop
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Johannes Ernst

This occurred to me when I opened up Instagram in a web browser the other day, and the Threads logo showed up all lonesome in the bottom left corner. One could very easily imagine to have Facebook and Whatsapp logos right next to it.
22 February at 4:31 | Open on social.coop
Johannes Ernst

Just to be clear, this is entirely speculation on my part, I have no inside information and declined to sign the offered NDA.

22 February at 4:32 | Open on social.coop
Michael Vogel
@J12t @Sarahp From what i read in the story it appears to me, that this is a simple "when I post something on Facebook, then post it with my Threads account on Threads as well." This is no federation. This is just the stuff that you can do with IFTTT as well, where you can define rules like "when I post on Instagram, then post this content on Twitter as well"
22 February at 4:40 | Open on pirati.ca
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