There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.
I’m struggling to think of a reason that Meta is implementing ActivityPub protocol in Threads. There are a couple of possible reasons:
access to an instant user base
potential to influence a worrying rival
What I can’t figure out is how they intend to make money while allowing external instances access to the content? After all, any client could be used to strip out ads. It just doesn’t feel like it benefits Meta.
It leaves me a bit worried that they intend to divert the protocol in some way.
What I can’t figure out is how they intend to make money while allowing external instances access to the content?
They already have a significant amount of theoretical users since they’re allowing it to be used with an Instagram account, and they’re obviously not going to let users sign in to other instances using the official app. And frankly, the kind of user interested in using threads probably has near zero overlap with the people who would actually bother to join a different instance to browse content from threads.
I’m struggling to think of a reason that Meta is implementing ActivityPub protocol in Threads. There are a couple of possible reasons:
What I can’t figure out is how they intend to make money while allowing external instances access to the content? After all, any client could be used to strip out ads. It just doesn’t feel like it benefits Meta.
It leaves me a bit worried that they intend to divert the protocol in some way.
Seems like they’re just trying to get their fingers in the pie, it’s what they always do regardless of whether they know it will work or not.
They already have a significant amount of theoretical users since they’re allowing it to be used with an Instagram account, and they’re obviously not going to let users sign in to other instances using the official app. And frankly, the kind of user interested in using threads probably has near zero overlap with the people who would actually bother to join a different instance to browse content from threads.