A large corporate shopping mall settles in a nice neighborhood with small local run shops and community centers. The new shopping mall says ‘if we settle here, more people will come, and you all will benefit’. A few years later all small shops are bankrupt and the community is destroyed. What remains is a barren corporate landscape.
~~Is Threads federating? I thought it was just standalone. ~~
Searching around for “Threads Federation” or “Threads Fediverse” yielded nothing
Got it - ActivityPub was the term to use
Notably, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a post that there will be no ActivityPub support at launch. ActivityPub is — a protocol that is used to post on decentralized networks like Mastodon. But the platform plans to allow interactions with other fediverse servers in the future.
I guess so that they can get their dirty hands on teh fediverse data “legally” and, I assume, have their own shiny app that pumps ads down your throat. There’s a post somewhere regarding the permissions that threads asks for - pretty much everything you do on your phone will get sucked up by meta.
Embrace, Extend, and Enshittify.
I’m very interested to see where this goes.
I don’t think Threads poses a threat to Mastodon. It’s (mostly) a different user base. However, I do think Threads can knock out Twitter.
I’ve got my popcorn out.
Me too. I’m betting on Threads being the last nail in the coffin for Twitter. My second bet and extremely unpopular opinion is that Threads will be a good thing for Mastodon.
I do not have an Instagram account and will not be joining Threads either, but i am cautiously optimistic.
Today I learned about embrace, expand and extinguish. Many fear this is Meta’s plan for the fediverse.
I have no desire to see facebook in the fediverse, but that’s not really gentrification, it’s more like Walmart. (Anti-competitive corporate monopoly suppressing competition and forcing everyone to serve their bottom line)
Gentrification refers to the displacement of poor and working class people, and especially people of color, by affluent people, especially white. That’s not the specific dynamic here, in no small part because Mastodon has been self-gentrifying[1] aggressively from the beginning. (It is jokingly referred to as the HOA of the internet)
Through white techies being constantly obnoxious to POC who have the temerity to try to join the fediverse, the particular culture of content warning policing, and lack of discoverability making it hard to form community. Note: there’s no reason to think facebook would improve any of this. ↩︎
