I really hope we can get some good people from Threads to move over before Meta starts to do even more untrustworthy things.
Besides the absolutely absurdly move of following and pushing a fake"Fediverse" account that makes people think Fediverse is a single entity or organization, they've already started discussions about expansions to AP to allow platforms to support ads and other shitty ways of monetization.
Fedi needs to make money to survive, I know that. I am behind that, but ads are the shadiest of all the monetization methods because of tracking. Nobody wants to be tracked no matter how "innocent" their activities are.
They've been REALLY quiet since activating AP on their end in a seemingly bad faith move to make the Fediverse seem "useless and pointless to use" by forcing users to educate themselves on the Fediverse if they even know it exists while also making the option to turn it on obscenely hard to locate from normal use.
All in all, I'm VERY skeptical of Meta's intentions and don't really think they'll end up fully federating in the end becuase "why enable a feature that a wide number of our users think is a useless feature?". I feel right now is as far as they're gonna go with it, maybe worldwide, but still one way because that benefits them, not us, and they won't push a feature that people think is useless.
Obviously this is intentional bad faith tactics, but they still have time to prove me wrong and I really hope they do. I really really hope one day we get full federation, but I would be very delusional to have high hopes that such a thing will ever occur given this week's revelations.🤦♂️
@sems_s because they do shady things referenced in the beginning of paragraph 2...😬😬
Fediverse isn't a single entity or organization as you know. Also, the @Fediverse account is posting false info about Fediverse like telling users that ask about threads integration that it's some sort of "bridge" and that their accounts can't turn it on because their country doesn't support basic internet infrastructure....instead of the actual truth that they're integrating AP directly, no bridge involved and the only reason anyone on threads can't turn it on is because Meta specifically doesn't allow them too yet, nothing about ANY countries infrastructure.
The engineer's alone can't be trusted, much less the executives...😳I don't see how it benefits anyone to follow an account like that and thats just the tip of the iceberg to all the other issues I've stated.