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As far as I can tell they don’t have support for activity pub but they say it’s coming and they’re working on it. Will they actually do it? Hard to say.



I’m pretty confident they will, if only to cooperate with the EUs digital markets act.


Yeah that's interesting though because there are a lot of other rules they'll need to follow in order to comply with the new regulations. So it's gonna be interesting to see how they approach it. It's also going to be interesting to see how the fediverse will respond to this because it would be such an outlier in terms of size and resources.


I think most instances will just have to block it, honestly. Unless it... provides fediverse access only to well-behaved accounts or something? This _could_ work, but would be a pretty bizarre user experience.

Assuming it just federates as-is, though, I don't think it'll last a day on most instances.


Yeah but how do you even define well-behaved? That can become complicated real fast. My bet is that they'll just allow people to follow an account using the classic @username@threads.net and they'll allow for export of the content and that's about it.


Is that part of DMA compliance? If so, then what about Facebook itself?


lol... well here's one opinion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36669480


Yeah, I'm watching this with great interest.




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