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The Britannica entry for the Fediverse is really good (www.britannica.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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It isn't that surprising but it is somewhat surprising.

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[–] 33 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The bad news is: you can already follow accounts bidirectionally between Threads and Mastodon. The good news is: Meta did the bare minimum and seems to have stopped development.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Back when they started on that, we were worried they were going to kill ActivityPub like how Netscape got killed by IE durring the browser wars. EEE (Embrace, Expande, Eliminate), adopt the protocol, expand its capabilities while including propriatary portions of code, and lock the competition out when market saturation is achieved.

    The issue is that fedivers residents are a bunch of tech-literate weirdos and called this bullshit the second the news dropped, and are 100% the type of people who make forks as soon as something like that would actually happen. Piefed being the perfect example, this part of the internet is perfectly fine just picking up their things and making something else (and we love it here for that).

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Also, Threads has introduced extremely strict rules for servers that want to federate.

    Entire Fediverse server applications are incapable of following all these rules, either technologically or by concept.

    For example, IIRC, Threads demanded a full public timeline. Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte do have that feature in code. But it's intentionally turned off server-wide by default, and there's a very good reason for this and for just about no serious admins of public servers ever turning it on.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Threads has introduced extremely strict rules for servers that want to federate.

    That's hilarious, considering just as soon as this whole Threads fediverse integration project was announced, a whole bunch of prominent fediverse hosts joined up and blocked them en masse. Like, fuck it, we're not talking to Facebook, nope nope nope. (Turbo Based.) (Check your Mastodon instance. Chances are they're still blocking threads.net.)

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