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Meta's Latest App Looks Like Reddit (gizmodo.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 100 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Their VR Chat clone didn't quite pan out. Their Twitter clone didn't quite pan out. Onto the Reddit clone.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Technically it was a mastodon clone

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    i'm curious: what makes it a mastodon clone over a twitter clone?

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Threads' plan is to implement the ActivityPub protocol, the one the fediverse is based on.

    In theory threads could then be federated with other ActivityPub servers (Mastodon and Lemmy for example).

    In practice, many instance admins saw it as meta's way to invade that space with their own proprietary bullshit on top of it so they can progressively take control of it. So many decided to block threads as soon as it would be able to federate with their instance.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago*

    Of course the community blocked it. They didn't even try to disguise their EEE attempt (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish). Duh.

    And this isn't the first time. Back in the day Facebook messenger was actually fully XMPP federation compatible! But they pulled the plug on that.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    One thing I don't understand is why they just didn't buy vrchat or one of the others that are even better. Like spatial or viverse.

    Would have been a lot simpler and effective than throwing billion after billion at it.

    I mean Microsoft did buy altspacevr and completely screwed it up when they made 'mesh' but Microsoft screws everything up, that's just what they do. It would have been easy to do better than that.

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