Alessandro Paluzzi, a developer who routinely digs into app code to expose unreleased features, tweeted early this morning that Meta’s Twitter clone, Thread, had been released into the Google Play store. It appears as though that was a mistake, however, because the app is nowhere to be found now.
I’ve heard it’s going to be connected with ActivityPub. I look forward to it, if people I know who are mostly Meta users move over.
I’m worried Meta is going to kill the Fediverse.
They’re going to try at the very least, I’m quite certain of it.
I understand your fear. I don’t share it, because I miss the community and friends I’ve lost I don’t think they will kill the Fediverse any more than federation will kill Meta. I think many of us will venture to Threads, but still will be be in both places.
Actually yeah, if Activity Pub gets account migration working it may finally be a way out to my relatives still stuck on Facebook.
But do we really trust meta to honor such mechanic? We need to be wary of them embracing in order to take over.
For Facebook being Facebook, I can’t help but think how will they screw up “Threads.” Instagram has become a junk platform and WhatsApp has declined as well. Meta or Facebook will try to monetize Threads or ActivityPub with their own take. I can’t believe anything decent let alone good will come from this.
Fediverse user: “Grandma??”
Threads user: “Oh my…that’s quite an interesting…unicorn suit, Ralph…”