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2024-12-10 19:24:17

fediversereport@mastodon.social

New: Why is Meta adding fediverse interoperability to Threads?

Threads' most recent update allows people on Threads to follow people on the #fediverse, albeit with some significant caveats.

But one simple question has bugging me for a long while: Why? Why is Meta adding interoperability to their platform?

https://fediversereport.com/why-is-meta-adding-fediverse-interoperability-to-threads/

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2024-12-11 15:50:29

Ryek Darkener

_RyekDarkener_@mastodon.social

@fediversereport

One reason I can think of is gathering input for machine learning which is not complete mainstream and mediocre.
I’m far from elitism, but in general I find that most toots have more value and relevance than the (dis)information flow on other platforms.

2024-12-11 16:17:27

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@GunChleoc @crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts It definitely is. Whether Meta like it or not.

Facebook may be "the Internet" for the entire Third World, but Meta need the European market. Desperately. And be it out of fear that the Facebook and Instagram killers may come out of Europe where people can no longer use "the real deal" after they were banned from the EU.

I dare say that Meta aren't a bunch of dumb jingoists who can barely grasp the idea of Europe having electricity. I'm pretty sure they know about the pile of social networks that were launched in Germany alone. I'm not even talking about Mastodon and Pleroma. I'm talking about StudiVZ/MeinVZ, Wer-kennt-wen and StayFriends, just to name the formerly biggest three. In fact, when Facebook was new, it had a hard time entering the German market because its entire potential target audience was on StudiVZ or MeinVZ and/or Wer-kennt-wen already.

So if Meta Platforms were banned from the EU market in its entirety, chances wouldn't be bad that someone whips up replacements.

And Meta know pretty well that this wouldn't even be necessary. There are already alternatives for everything the offer, even free, open-source, decentralised ones in all cases, and Meta know about at least some of them. They've known Friendica since at least 2012, for example. If Meta were forced to leave the EU, some of these alternatives would grow huge enough to have the chance to become serious competition to Meta outside the EU.

And so they're connecting Threads to the Fediverse just barely enough for the EU to shut up and leave them alone. I mean, why don't they go all-in instead if they're allegedly so eager to get their filthy hands on the Fediverse?

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #MetaPlatforms #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Threads #Horizonworlds #Horizons #EU #EuropeanUnion

2024-12-11 17:07:16

Viktoria D. Richards/Uddelhexe

v_d_richards@literatur.social

@fediversereport One reason i will only feel safe, if i still can block complete instances like Threads or be part of an instance, that has deferderated already.
If i wanted Meta to have easy access to my data or their minions to be in contact with me, i would be on a Meta plattform.

Meta is like a Tumor that wants to overgrow and grow through everything and poison and take from it.