When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse “soon”.
But on July 14, @alexeheath of the Verge reported that Meta’s saying ActivityPub integration’s “a long way out”. Hey wait a second. Make up your mind already!
From the perspective of the “free fediverse” that’s not welcoming Meta, the new positioning that ActivityPub integration is “a long way out” is encouraging. OK, it’s not as good as “when hell freezes over,” but it’s a heckuva lot better than “soon.” In fact, I’d go so far as to say “a long way out” is a clear victory for the free fediverse’s cause.
You mean all of the ridiculous bullshit complaining and bragading that has been going on here for weeks was pointless?
Not at all. I talked about this in In chaos there is opportunity! Meta’s potential arrival is a likely to be a good thing for the fediverse no matter whether or not they actually go forward with it.
It was always pointless. If Meta or anyone tries to join Fediverse, there is no stopping them. There will always be some instances that will federate with them.
What Lemmy needs is an instance wide blocking system, so users can themselves decide which instance to block.
Yes totally agree. Give individuals the power to do what they want without assaulting the rest of us would be really nice.