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Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon (arstechnica.com)
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Meta promised to make Threads compatible with W3C open standard for social media.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But conditions are different now. Government officials mulling how to regulate large tech platforms today often turn to the idea of requiring interoperability, says Georgios Petropoulos, a researcher at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Threads is not currently available in Europe, due at least in part to uncertainties related to the EU’s new Digital Markets Act and other regulations—especially rules related to how Threads user data will interact with data on other platforms, Petropoulos believes. The new EU rules also contain provisions on interoperability that are still being hashed out.

Ah ha, this is the first great explanation I’ve heard for why Meta may be interested in joining the fediverse. Avoiding regulators.