Threads' roadmap for integrations with the fediverse, aka the network of decentralized apps that includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and others, has been
Much digital ink has been spilled about keeping Facebook off the Fediverse, and for and against servers preemptively blocking them.
It’s worth pointing out Facebook can still basically consume data from the Fediverse, live and with unlimited bandwidth… This is just an instance of them doing it the official way.
I think the entire point was actually that no single party can unilaterally make that decision. People who want to interact with Meta can, and those who don’t can simply not.
If you don’t wanna deal with them, be on a server that doesn’t federate with them.
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Much digital ink has been spilled about keeping Facebook off the Fediverse, and for and against servers preemptively blocking them.
It’s worth pointing out Facebook can still basically consume data from the Fediverse, live and with unlimited bandwidth… This is just an instance of them doing it the official way.
I think the entire point was actually that no single party can unilaterally make that decision. People who want to interact with Meta can, and those who don’t can simply not.
If you don’t wanna deal with them, be on a server that doesn’t federate with them.
True fact…