This is what Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor looks like
www.theverge.com
Meta says people want a communications platform that’s “sanely run.”

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?

  • princessofcute@kbin.social
    7·
    2 years ago

    No interest whatsoever. I don’t like Facebook (I refuse to call them meta) or any of it’s subsidiaries. Mastodon works great for my Twitter like needs.

    I do hope that most instances block them though, for obvious privacy reasons but also because it would be hilarious as it would basically invalidate one of the major selling points of the ActivityPub protocol for them.

    • fr0g@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      I have my Masto account set up to auto-delete most of my posts after a while. If Meta connects to the fediverse, I have absolutely zero confidence they will honor those deletion requests.
      Not sure how to grapple with that yet, generally speaking I don’t think one of the social media giants embracing ActivityPub necessarily has to be a bad thing.