Comment on Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse
pastaPersona@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Idk as long as Meta services keep forcing you to sign up for an account to view anything of value I’d imagine a lot of people will look for alternatives elsewhere.
Nothing more annoying than trying to look at the menu for a local restaurant/business page for a local business and seeing “sign up for Facebook to view this page.” Much of the utility for any kind of discussion or shared info online (imo) lies in the ability to access it quickly via search and without being forced to login.
Zak@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Threads doesn’t do that, and won’t be able to if it wants to support ActivityPub federation.
0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 9 months ago
Don't you have to have an Instagram account to use Threads? Every service on the fediverse makes you create an account. And all of them can put all its content behind that account; nothing in ActivityPub prevents that
Zak@lemmy.world 9 months ago
An account is required to post on Threads. It is not required to view content posted on Threads, which is different from Facebook and Instagram.
ActivityPub means that servers other than Threads will receive content from Threads which they can serve to visitors.
0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 9 months ago
Ok. Your point was that you can view Threads content without a Threads account and even if they required an account to view Threads content, users with other fediverse accounts could still see the content because that's how federation works.
Sorry, i misunderstood your point .