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@shantini You've got a zillion responses, so I expect you won't read this one (and that's fair!), but for the sake of saying it: What I have read so far is that Masto users will essentially be able to peer over the fence in to Threads at selected "famous people" accounts, but if we wanted to interact with them, we'd have to join Threads. This is not what "interoperability" means, as far as I can tell. That's my issue. IMO. FWIW. YMMV. BBQ. 8 comments
@bluefirex I hope that's true. I don't believe a word anyone from "Meta" says. Even then, they're huge, and we're small, and they could eat us just by presenting something distantly easier to sigh up for. So I'm not filled with hope. That said, I don't know what anyone could do about it! Activity Pub just is open, so anyone can connect to it. I think we all need to organize *collectively* to make sure we're not colonized, and I'm using that word in its technical sense. @OrionKidder I do believe Mosseri regarding this, however his recent gotcha was that federation will probably opt-in. Given the large number of users simply unaware of Mastodon's existence and hence federation in general, that'll mean a lot of content just missing here. @bluefirex Believing or not believing is an individual judgement call, so let's hope you're right. I get what you mean about access to content, but I also have been Canadian all my life, and when American "content" floods across our border, it drowns out our content. Canadian movie theatres show American movies. Canadian tv channels air American shows. The exception are government funded and/or legally mandated. @bluefirex Remember when the twitter users flooded mastodon and expected it to be like Twitter? If they'd outnumbered Mastodon users, which Threads users do by a factor of five or ten I think, they'd have changed this place, not the other way around. These are my concerns. I hope I'm wrong. Because there's nothing to be done about it but resist. @OrionKidder I don't think the platform will change. It will probably stay a kind of needy bubble for quite a while while the celebs are on Threads. Just like different internet forums can co-exist with one another. @bluefirex What I see on here includes reposts, and there will be much more Threads content to repost than anything else. I can turn off reposts, but then I diminish my Mastodon experience, plus that's a per-follow opt-in, a big barrier to use. As the space absorbs more and more of Threads' content, it becomes Threads in style and culture, and we have been, in effect, colonized. I mean no disrespect to colonized peoples when I say that. It's the closest historical analogue I can think of. @OrionKidder What content you see entirely depends on who you follow here, though. Only Threads itself has the algorithmic timeline. If you don't follow American or whatever people, you won't see that kind of content. I do follow Americans here and see a large percentage of American content because of that (even though I'm German), but that's because I chose it through following those people |
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@OrionKidder that is temporary. They're testing the waters and Mosseri said this is gonna take a few months until it's fully federated without needing threads accounts.