normie friends
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Comment on Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users by year-end, according to Meta meeting details
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 9 months agoNo, 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.
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
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.