Sounds like Meta wants to force you to give them your phone number.

  • BlackEco
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    I wonder if they will ever implement ActivityPub and federate. I know, there’s fear of “Embrace, Extend and Extinguish”, but still, that would allow privacy-minded people to follow Threads users without giving them such data by using Mastodon, CalcKey and other micro-blogging apps.

    • ryan
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      They absolutely will. The EU’s Digital Markets Act requires interoperability between social messaging services. ActivityPub is an easy way to comply because they are “technically” interoperable but can still choose to only federate with instances that abide by their rules.

      • @Tibert@compuverse.uk
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        I don’t know if that loophole may work. But if it does, it may work only for a time until a consumer association escalates that to the European court of justice.

      • umami_wasabi
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        Did thye define how to achive interoperability? They can make a ActivityPub clone to call it interoperable but no one else use it.

    • @Pantherina@feddit.de
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      Yayy, fuck up your instance and use it for a damn Meta proxy.

      I hope if they try that the instances simply defederate. And I like Federation and want more people on here, and I miss the variety of non tech content. But still, no thanks

      People actively choosing a new network by Meta are just too stupid to be worth breaking our ecosystem, period.