Comment on Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse
Zak@lemmy.world 10 months agoas long as Meta services keep forcing you to sign up for an account to view anything of value
Threads doesn’t do that, and won’t be able to if it wants to support ActivityPub federation.
0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 10 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 10 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 10 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 .