Gregory's Server@ploum great article, thanks.
I have been suspicious about this whole thing. On one hand, people on Threads can follow me and see my pictures and that in itself is great. But it's Meta who is running in. They will suck data out of the Fediverse and probably add new "cool" functionalities that Fediverse don't have and then we have the XMPP situation all over again.
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@estwikphoto @ploum I think its great because threads users are one step closer to being free than say, Twitter or FB users. They could interact directly with these fediverse accounts we've been making and saying people should do for years now without the excuse of Mastodon being confusing or lemmy being scary. Then when they see how not confusing it is (it's literally just like email), they'll be more interested in moving sites when Threads inevitably fucks up |
@estwikphoto @ploum if that were to happen I would argue that we are further along than XMPP was, Lemmy and Mastodon have developed their own cultures and feel like spaces that are distinct but interopable. Meta will suck data out of the fediverse regardless of what any of us do, since our user data is still accessible other ways besides Federation in servers. Who's to say our data here isn't already being collected and fed into ad profiles right now?