Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram and Threads about the integration to the Fediverse:
"So everything has become at least three, if not six, or seven times more difficult than we thought. But we're committed to it, and we're making progress. We have some announcements coming soon. We just gotta get the basics out. You’ve got to be able to not only post to the fediverse, but to get your replies in the app. Ideally, you should be able to follow accounts from the fediverse in Threads, not just follow Threads accounts on Mastodon servers or clients. So there's still plenty of work to do. But I do believe the world is going to become more open over time. And we should lean into that. And if it takes time, it takes time."
https://www.platformer.news/threads-175-million-users-adam-mosseri-interview/
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william.maggos
in reply to Roni Laukkarinen • • •"Ideally, you should be able to follow accounts from the fediverse in Threads..." WTF. If you can't do this, it's a roach motel. Lock-in remains. Big accounts will know they can't ever leave and have a large audience. All positive feelings about them joining was built on this, that they were bringing a huge audience to us.
What's hard about it? I doubt it's technical. Meta just knows it means they'd be losing out on exposing people to algos and ads and data mining them.
Roni Laukkarinen
in reply to william.maggos • • •@wjmaggos He literally states the challenges in the interview - it is technical:
"It is proving very difficult just to do the basics, particularly from a compliance and a privacy perspective. The standards we're held to are just different, based on our scale. (That's reasonable, that's not a complaint.) And there's a lot of requirements around the world around data separation, around integrity and safety, around all sorts of things that become exponentially more complicated when you're importing data from other servers, which have different rules, that actually are designed to have different rules. "
I have high hopes for them to scale it. It's nowhere near usable yet in pre-beta.
william.maggos
in reply to Roni Laukkarinen • • •I have hopes. I doubt that if they really wanted to solve this, they couldn't (to the degree it would hurt their business of course). "ideally" makes me think they think it might not happen. that's a change afaik.
(yes, I haven't gotten to it yet. responded to your quote)
Roni Laukkarinen
in reply to william.maggos • • •Tim Chambers
www.timothychambers.netJohan | PD1JMB
in reply to Roni Laukkarinen • • •Can't stand that cunt.
"Blablabla people want to talk about stuff that is happening in the world but not politics 🤡"
He want users to be mindless drones to show ads to, that is it.
Roni Laukkarinen
in reply to Johan | PD1JMB • • •@dynode I wonder why are you commenting if that is your stance. Did you read the interview? He also addresses that particular thing.
"I feel not so good about how I communicated it. I think I communicated it more as news upfront, even with you directly. And I think I really should have been more clear about politics.
To be super clear, politics are on Threads, and they will always be on Threads. We will not get between people and political content that they follow just because it's political."
Johan | PD1JMB
in reply to Roni Laukkarinen • • •Do people actually want that? People should consciously make a choice whether to have politics presented to them.
I feel he is trying to make the platform more "palatable" for people, only good vibes please! 🤔