Here’s everything we know about it so far:
- It will use ActivityPub.
- It will be a side app of Instagram.
- It will most likely be called Threads.
- Your Instagram verification status will transfer over.
- There will be easy discovery tools in place: Your Instagram followers will be able to follow you on Threads as well (they won’t transfer over automatically).
What do you think?
Yep, I think the best chance the fediverse has is for corporations to get on it and find ways to monetize it. I personally won’t be joining any servers that aren’t well behaved with my data and feed, but they are free to create such servers.
The only world where the fediverse is successful is one where corporations are on it too.
Normally, I would be against this, however, does the average instance owner have the money to maintain a server? No.