Would it be possible for the mastodon software to detect if users are connecting via threads and replace all images in posts with a different image - one that says e.g. telling people that Zuckerberg doesn't care about raising tennage suicide rates through Instagram or something similar.

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[–] projectmoon@lemm.ee -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So is there a way to follow someone on Threads now? Or at least get one's instance to load a post? Where are the details of this beyond Zuckerberg's post?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Depends on your Mastodon instance and if it defederated with Threads or not

Try pasting the username of a threads user into the search

[+] Not_mikey@lemmy.world -6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

To all the people wondering about metas intentions in this it's not the big bad corporation taking down the upstart competition. All the people saying it's EEE can't show any sign metas doing this or even wants to because the strategy doesn't work, any time a company does it it either doesn't take off or they get brought up on anti-trust laws. Show me a standard that was destroyed by EEE and I'll show you a standard that never took off in the first place. All the usual examples given, email, java, html, remain open standards to this day.

The truth is the fediverse isn't competition to meta, it's a fraction of the size and is populated by users who would never use meta services in the first place. They can pretend it's a competitor though. If twitter does actually collapse and people switch to threads meta will face anti-trust suits for owning the three largest social media platforms. If they add activity pub support though they can point to the fediverse and say it's competition, even if it's only 1 % of the platform. They also have to deal with EU interoperability laws that might start getting enforced.

TL;DR this is about compliance for meta, not conquest.

[–] EveningNewbs@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Show me a standard that was destroyed by EEE and I'll show you a standard that never took off in the first place.

XMPP says hi.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The platform never really took off. It was a niche messaging platform before Facebook and Google and went back to being one after they left. I have yet to see any evidence that Google or Facebook helped or hurt xmpp, just speculation and anger that it didn't take off.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

"it's not embrace-extended-extinguish. Facebook and Google merely adopted it, increased its reach, and then made it irrelevant."

[–] neshura@bookwormstory.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

> make a new messenger using a niche protocol > new users choose your messenger because it is objectively the best after you dumped unreasonable amounts of cash into it > userbase grows, in large parts because the small messenger is interoperable so you can say "hey, if other company wanted to they could just implement [protocol] for you, we are already doing that" > once userbase reaches critical mass, pull the plug on the protocol > users with long chat histories and contact books are now more or less stuck on your platform whether they like it or not because getting people to switch suddenly means two messengers instead of one for them, not a good proposition to make.

XMPP did take off while it was in Messenger, Facebook decided to kill it with its superior reach because it was a step-ladder rather than something actually useful to them. Facebook will absolutely use the Mastodon interoperability as a marketing trick "Hey guys, if you have friends that don't like threads they can use another platform and still talk with you". They'll use it to distinguish threads from twitter until they feel like they don't need it anymore. Then they'll find some sort of technical excuse and pull the plug on ActivityPub support.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

then they'll find some sort of technical excuse and pull the plug on ActivityPub support

How do they do this without running a foul of regulators? People are already mad at meta and want to break them up for having instagram and Facebook, if they add the last big social media platform every politician right and left will be lining up to take them down. There's a reason they never bought twitter despite being able to 10x over. Combine that with new EU interoperability laws and there's no way meta could get away with that.

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