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Isn't Threads just Instagram with optional text posts? Same old proprietary obfuscated mess, locked garden, meh, no thanks.

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> locked garden

Not to defend Meta, but this isn't true. Meta is embracing the fediverse protocol with Threads.

I used to be able to talk friends on AIM, Yahoo, and Messenger all through Pidgin too.

"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.'"

It's kinda funny how Bush's fans back then tried to justify this, saying he was self-aware enough to dodge saying 'Shame on me' on tape. They thought he was trying to avoid giving his opponents some campaign ad material. Given the one being defended, I'm not so sure.

Meta mentioned ActivityPub/Fediverse support but I'll believe it when I see it.

Maybe it's the cynic in me but I think Meta will just implement a tiny portion of the spec that benefits them (importing posts from Mastodon?) and then stall there.

they claim they will, but haven’t, which probably means they won’t.

I mean, while I'm no fan of Facebook, it appears to be a lot less of a locked garden than Twitter. You can view full threads on the web (you can't do that with Twitter anymore, without logging in), and they are apparently going to support ActivityPub (though I suspect in practice a lot of Mastodon and other ActivityPub instances will defederate; I can't imagine that Facebook's moderation will be adequate).

It aims to be interoperable via the activitypub protocol no?

That's true. Although I think any respectable instance/entity has already gone ahead and blocked federation with Threads.

It's mostly smaller ones which have pre-emptively promised to defederate; a lot of the big ones are taking a wait and see approach. Though it's hard to imagine that Facebook's moderation will be adequate, and I expect a lot of those will defederate once the crypto spam starts coming through.

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