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For those that don’t know, word has been a while from the CEO of tumblr that they will federate with the fediverse.
They apparently hesitated recently for fear of overrunning the fediverse with their relative size. But that might have changed now since Meta are coming with their platform. And also the fediverse keeps growing.
Wait…. Meta is coming to the fediverse‽
Yep!
A new platform, touted to be called "Threads", that's probably going to be very twitter like but on the fediverse. I think all instagram accounts will automatically or easily have a "Threads" account, so it's probably being positioned as a text/twitter extension of instagram.
Not only is it coming, but probably in the next month or two. And it seems that they want to federate with mastodon instances and the fediverse at large. For example, one large mastodon instance admin has already revealed that they've spoken to reps from meta.
As far as business motivations, Meta and Zuck are competitors with Twitter, and this is a good opportunity for them to go for Twitter's throat, while also using us (fediverse) as a weapon against BlueSky. Additionally, there may be some legal benefits to any anti-trust claims if they're operating on an open protocol, despite potentially dominating it with the huge instagram membership/
The problem will be getting your general insta user used to the concept of the fediverse. I mean, i came here voluntarily from reddit and ive put effort into understanding it and im still confused a bit
How do they plan on integrating everybody's insta account without mass confusion?
Hell, this makes me kinda anxious about how my insta will work and i have a headstart haha