Threads' roadmap for integrations with the fediverse, aka the network of decentralized apps that includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and others, has been
The other side is Facebook Messenger started out as federated XMPP until it got big enough, then it changed the backend it’s using to a proprietary one
AKA Embrace Extend Extinguish. A phrase that originally referred to a Microsoft plan, but it was implemented with XMPP and other web standards much more effectively by Google and, of course, Facebook.
No, this is the good kind of federation because I can post on Mastodon and my normie friends can see it.
The write-only federation they’re doing now is bad because it pushes Mastodon users to join Threads.
The other side is Facebook Messenger started out as federated XMPP until it got big enough, then it changed the backend it’s using to a proprietary one
AKA Embrace Extend Extinguish. A phrase that originally referred to a Microsoft plan, but it was implemented with XMPP and other web standards much more effectively by Google and, of course, Facebook.
That is one way to think about it that I haven’t seen mentioned before.
ew.
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