that’s not actually something that they’re implementing.
That’s not true, their CEO said that you’ll be able to converse and comment without leaving the app in the near future. Also, most instance owners are small, they could be overwhelmed pretty easily.
I’m 100% sure that this small town isn’t ready for a cruise ship. That’s not to say, that in a year or two, we couldn’t be prepared for it. Right now, the relatively small influx from Reddit brutalized the existing community. This is the wild, wild, west for Meta because they’re not getting enough new users for their shareholders in their existing platforms, I’m sure they’re salivating.
A Threads users’ content is only going to be visible outside of Threads if the user explicitly opts in to that. The vast majority of people aren’t going to do that, or even be aware they can do that. In this analogy, most of the people aren’t going to be aware their cruise ship has docked at a town and aren’t going to be interested in getting off of it.
What do you mean? I follow a lot of hashtags on Mastodon. Won’t I be seeing a lot of Threads content if I’m on a server federated with them without explicitly opting into that?
Threads’ implementation is planned, at least initially, to flow inward rather than outward. The posts they make won’t be seen outside of Threads at all initially, and later they intend to add that as something users will have to opt into in their settings (people rarely change their default settings so this will likely not happen much).
Even if it eventually does happen, many Fediverse server projects are already implementing features to allow users to block instances for themselves without need for defederation. If you find the comments from Threads to be annoying, block them.
Users. They’re talking about whether Threads’ user content will be “broadcast” out to external instances.
Where are you getting this information and if it’s true? Even if it’s true, Meta isn’t known for sticking with what works for the user, but what works for their shareholders. They will figure out a way to exploit and/or extinguish the fediverse.
In the cruise ship analogy, they will stay on the boat the first few 3 or 4 times so everyone backs down and then they’ll open the bridge for all 5k. None of this rocket science.
Why do you want them here so bad?
Here’s where I got that information.
Why do you want them here so bad?
Because I believe in open protocols and freedom of discourse. I think that widespread adoption of open protocols like ActivityPub are a good thing.
