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in reply to @eramdam's post:

they absolutely will not and this is the right move from the EU for sure

but also now im kinda groaning because for a split second it felt like oh if this works then using masto/misskey because way more plausible and we get way more in touch with japanese "twitter" again, especially since insta is huge there. i genuinely want this over bluesky becoming 'that' replacement.

but also yeah maybe facebook shouldnt scrape everything i do to sell it to people!! what a concept!!

Yeah it really is a "pick your poison" type deal.

Ironically I truly think Threads might kill or seriously damage Bluesky. Bluesky has appeal only because it's Twitter Like in how it works (one server, one app, etc) but the invite system slows it down. Threads won't have any invite system to worry about so I suspect it will capture A LOT of people who just need Somewhere to go. But obviously that will be hampered by the US/UK-only thing (at least at the beginning).

It's launching in Japan soon too, according to Nikkei.

Like I just want it to work (and damage bluesky) because a seriously large influx of people coming to activitypub means I can consider using Ivory to browse that stuff. I guess most places have defederated Threads but I gotta imagine people will rescind that if it means more users?

It's launching in Japan soon too, according to Nikkei.

Oh! I didn't know that, interesting then.

I guess most places have defederated Threads but I gotta imagine people will rescind that if it means more users?

For now, all I'm aware of is the whole "Fedipact" thing where a bunch of instance admins vowed not to federate with it, but it remains to be seen how it will shake out. I suspect that, as you said, there will be an uproar from users who might want to connect with friends on Threads. I know of one instance where the admins decision to not federate with Threads caused A Discourse amongst users lol

seriously large influx of people coming to activitypub means I can consider using Ivory to browse that stuff.

FWIW SkyBridge is a thing and works most of the way. If it's just to browse stuff and you don't mind missing quote-posts then it's surprisingly functional lol

Oh huh! I didn't know about this, that's good to know. I guess it's mostly then just like, wanting to use that because there's a critical mass of people on the fediverse because of Threads. Right now Ive little reason for it unfortunately.

I mean, Facebook being Known Bad Actors has already caused a giant schism in the Mastodon community among servers who just want to pre-emptively block them rather than deal with their crap and the tech libertarian-types.

It's not going great! (I'm on a "block Meta on site" server which is what I want, but the hostility between the camps is uh... higher than usual. Mastodon has always had the problem of being maintained by weird tech leftists and weirder tech libertarians who barely can stand each other on the best of days.)