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  • 60% of Lemmy-instances blocks Threads.net

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  • Yep. Meta's convinced him that this is a huge victory for Mastodon -- and a good way for him to achieve his goal of getting Mastodon to 100,000,000 users.

  • Getting Tangled Up in Threads

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  • Right, a post embed that results in anybody visiting your site gets tracked by Meta (whether or not they have an account there).

  • Getting Tangled Up in Threads

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  • You're completely right that there are likely to be major scalability issues, at this point I don't think anybody fully knows what the implications are, and it's not getting a lot of discussion. This is part of why Meta's proceeding slowly and presumably we'll see a lot of performance work over the next few months to deal with the expected onslaught.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    thenexusofprivacy @lemmy.world

    Untangling Threads | Erin Kissane

    erinkissane.com /untangling-threads

  • Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse

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  • Exactly. XMPP has hundreds of millions of users too (billions of you count WhatsApp's non-standard version) and Matrix has close to 100 million but we don't consider them part of the fediverse either.

  • Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse

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  • No, Meta claims that Threads has 100 million monthly active users, the fediverse as a whole has 1.4 - 1.7 million depending on whose statistics you use. Even if they're exaggerating, it's still much got a lot more users.

  • Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse

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  • Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse

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  • Glad you liked it, I like to put in a treat for people who read all the way to the end!

  • Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse

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  • It's not a typo but I see what you mean, I meant that it has a lot fewer people in it but it's not great wording and I'll fix it. Thanks!

  • Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse

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  • Yep, I've said for a while that if a schism with transitive defederation happens, it'll be a good thing. There are many fediverses!

  • Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse

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  • Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse

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  • I didn't have that in the original draft, and half the people who reviewed it said "I don't understand what you mean by exploit". And no, I don't think people reading the article are dumb as shit, I assume that most people who already know what exploit means are intelligent enough to skip over the four lines of cut-and-paste text and read the rest of the article.

  • Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse

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  • Try reading the article, others seem to understand the point I'm making (whether or not they agree).

  • Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse

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  • Many others are optimistic as well. In general I think Meta's arrival will be positive for the fediverse (and I just edited the post to make that clearer). In any case I think the fediverse will clearly survive.

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  • Yet another word that starts with an E! Thanks for the link, I added a link to the post near the end of the "Extinguish isn't the only word that starts with an E":

    Either way, as Ramin Honary suggests, it's a great opportunity for Enshittification – yet another word that starts with an E!

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    thenexusofprivacy @lemmy.world

    Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse

    privacy.thenexus.today /embrace-extend-and-exploit/