Threads seems to be beginning to test ActivityPub federation, and since Kbin can be used for microblogging, this affects kbin.social. What are your thoughts on federating or defederating with them?
Threads seems to be beginning to test ActivityPub federation, and since Kbin can be used for microblogging, this affects kbin.social. What are your thoughts on federating or defederating with them?
Refusing to federate with Threads would achieve exactly that outcome. Most people on Threads wouldn’t know the Fediverse existed any more than most people on Google knew XMPP existed.
The Fediverse is struggling to get a large enough userbase to be as useful as the mega-services it replaces. Threads can gift that userbase and make people more aware that the Fediverse exists.
FWIW this is exactly why Threads didn’t join the Fediverse until they’d overcome the legal obstacles to operating in the EU. If they’d federated first they risked losing all their potential EU users to the Fediverse.
The quickest way to lose this game is not to play it and the Google/XMPP example iillustrates why.
Alright, so the plan is to federate with Threads but to not implement any of their extensions?
I don’t know what you mean by that.
I don’t think there should be one plan. Some people on the Fediverse want nothing to do with Threads. Others want the massive userbase because that’s the only way to get the content and discussion they’re looking for. Instances which do federate will have to deal with moderation issues, and will choose different ways to do that.
The beauty of the Fediverse is that there will be instances with policies to suit every user. Exactly as it should be.