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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I want to be clear, that I disagree with his “federation is stupid” point, but email has problems right now.

    Theoretically it’s federated, theoretically you can spin up your own mail server and self host.

    But even if you do that absolutely perfectly (SPF, DKIM, DMARC etc), you can falsely end up on spam list, that effectively block delivery of your email to large segments of the network for days if not weeks.

    Whilst theoretically federated, email falls under the broad dominion of google, microsoft and a couple of other large players.





  • Maybe the client is faster/prettier/can show videos/uses less data/integrates with their phone better.
    Maybe it’s got features that clients here lack such as the ability to host larger images or video.
    Maybe the user is sick of responding to conversations over there and it not being federated, so they are ignored.
    Maybe using the Threads app is just faster (because it’s local instead of batch federating).

    If I was in charge of product design for Threads, I would be literally crawling the issue listings for Lemmy/Kbin and the associated clients looking for complaints and implementing solutions for those problems.
    Then I would make a list of every limitation within the system and make sure Threads exceeds that baseline.

    And then when I had made the software better in every measurable way (because I am paying a large team of developers to target those pain points), I’d start adding features that ActivityPub doesn’t, especially if ActivityPub instances would find those features hard to implement.

    I’d make damn sure that every time ActivityPub changes from a source outside Meta, I’d drag my heels on implementing that feature, so that instance hosts are forced to choose between implementing the new version, or maintaining compatability with Threads.

    Why would a user here move there?
    Because their spouse/coworker/friend tried to send something for the 50th time and the message just never came through.


  • Threads will mainstream threads.
    Any good content here will be available to the Threads users, who will be oblivious to where it is coming from.
    Eventually, Meta will take steps to break compatability, and lots of the most prolific contributors from here will move to Threads exclusively (for a host of valid reasons).
    When it is no longer in Meta interest to federate, they will stop.

    The fediverse will continue, but it will be weakened by it’s temporary reliance on Threads (who could afford to host large images/videos/etc, have lower latency, etc etc).