Comment on Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users by year-end, according to Meta meeting details

jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, this is the good kind of federation because I can post on Mastodon and my normie friends can see it.

  The write-only federation they’re doing now is bad because it pushes Mastodon users to join Threads.

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  • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The other side is Facebook Messenger started out as federated XMPP until it got big enough, then it changed the backend it’s using to a proprietary one

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      AKA Embrace Extend Extinguish. A phrase that originally referred to a Microsoft plan, but it was implemented with XMPP and other web standards much more effectively by Google and, of course, Facebook.

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    normie friends

    ew.

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    • atocci@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      😢

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