It isn’t that surprising but it is somewhat surprising.
Meta’s Threads is also working toward ActivityPub compatibility, which would significantly expand the fediverse user base.
Um… fuck no, please and thank you!
The bad news is: you can already follow accounts bidirectionally between Threads and Mastodon. The good news is: Meta did the bare minimum and seems to have stopped development.
Back when they started on that, we were worried they were going to kill ActivityPub like how Netscape got killed by IE durring the browser wars. EEE (Embrace, Expande, Eliminate), adopt the protocol, expand its capabilities while including propriatary portions of code, and lock the competition out when market saturation is achieved.
The issue is that fedivers residents are a bunch of tech-literate weirdos and called this bullshit the second the news dropped, and are 100% the type of people who make forks as soon as something like that would actually happen. Piefed being the perfect example, this part of the internet is perfectly fine just picking up their things and making something else (and we love it here for that).
Yep a lot of us built stuff like this before and will probably do it again.
fediverse, decentralized group of social media platforms in which each independent platform can interact freely with any other platform that is part of the group.
Great that they have an article on it, though their formatting the start of each article like a dictionary entry is a bit odd compared to Wikipedia.
If it were a Wikipedia article, it would probably need some copyediting to give it a more encyclopedic tone along with in-line citations.
Tbh I never understood the Lemmy users can interact with all other platforms that share the same protocol.
It’s not like I can view a Mastodon user’s history on Lemny, right?
Lemmy and history, no. On Lemmy you can see comments from Mastodon and posts (toot with a Lemmy community pinged inside. Which is rarely done but happens). But not the toots themselves
Piefed now allows to directly follow accounts (similar to Mastodon, Friendica, etc) and you can start getting the new toots after following an account https://piefed.zip/c/microblogsIt’s not like I can view a Mastodon user’s history on Lemny, right?
afaik you can
how?
ehh… just tested and it doesn’t seem to work… somehow i remembered it working but maybe i was mistaken
sorry for the misinformation
