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

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    I wouldn’t be surprised if every post/link shared from a threads instance has meta analytic tools and trackers built right into them.

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      That’s not how ActivityPub works. You can’t embed trackers or scripts into posts. You can’t even do the basic trackers that emails have(loading a 1px image) since your instance pulls the image from the originating server and caches it.

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        I trust you know how activity pub works much better than I, but I’m a superstitious fellow when it comes to meta & their endless appetite for data that doesn’t belong to them.

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        If Meta starts throwing their weight around the W3C to approve changes to ActivityPub that will benefit them, they can very well try to implement tracking.