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Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse | The head of Instagram says a full integration with the fediverse could take ‘the better part of a year’ (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Lucia@eviltoast.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the primary motivator is probably PR

They could go a bluesky route and build their own protocol so they could have more control over it. I don't think non-techy people would care about federation to be honest.

[–] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fair point, but they also have to please the EU, which won't buy them creating a new protocol with two existing ones gaining major traction, of which one is w3c standard.

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