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*glances at the TL of this #Fediverse developer of the past 24 hours*

So, huh, something's up with Meta's Threads, huh?

the first Threads account has federated with Mastodon

It's not all the way open yet, but, it's about time to decide if you're federating or not

@clayote Thank you for the factual answer even if my original post was meant to imply I was a little too aware of it. 😅
Are we about to see some really busy servers everywhere?
@David This is an understatement, and for any acception of “busy”. Diaspora should be spared, though!
My friendica server is clearly going to blow in half, good thing it's just a toy!
@Tek I’m not sure yet what’s in it for Meta to federate other than increase engagement metrics to flatter shareholders.
I suppose if others federate to them, they can claim that data and re-sell the data to the lexusnexus type world for revenue
@David Sure but what data they couldn’t get by scraping before? All this effort for a handful of followers-only posts/DMs? It doesn’t track.

@tek This thread on Meta's motives seems credible to me https://retro.social/@ajroach42/111580821264567850


Rachel Lambert, Director of Product Management at Meta just posted about working with the #fediverse

"Working with experts to figure out how we can reshape regulations that are built for closed systems, and adapt them to more open ones"

Ah. That's probably the game.

They've performed significant regulatory capture, and they're going to come out swinging about how the fediverse is full of material that requires regulation, and that anyone participating has to implement policies that are impossible at a hobby scale.

(Like big tech did with copyright infringement.)

( via https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/111580796631894681 )


I guess I assume private data held by meta vs public data off our servers has more resale value because they will use the bigger meta data pool to combine it all together to track the users they can.
@Isaac Kuo It makes sense, but again, all this for a meager million users?

@Hypolite Petovan Yeah a million users doesn't sound like much of a prize. But he may really be going for the much bigger prize of ex-X'ers, migrating to Mastodon and then back into the loving arms of Big Billionaire Bro.

Okay, so maybe this potential mass migration to Mastodon won't actually pan out. But it doesn't cost much effort to prep for it now, while the Mastodon active user base is small enough to swamp.