I really hope this is a complete failure, like Meta itself.

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    Maybe I’m just too cynical, but I think it’s naive to assume Meta is embracing ActivityPub out of the goodness of their heart, effectively giving free content away to federated instances with no strings attached.

    I think it’s also naive to assume Threads users will migrate to the Fediverse proper and not just interact through Threads. The vast majority of those users may not even realise they’re interacting with people outside of Threads.

    I don’t believe it’ll translate to a growing community, it may very well oversaturate us instead.

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      This is not cynicism. It’s realism. Corporations (especially Meta) have no heart, soul, or care for any externalities to the generation of profit.

      The best case is that they will slowly ease into things by contributing to FOSS repos/projects while silently developing proprietary versions or extensions which wall it off.