Comment on Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse
0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 10 months agoDon'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 .