Some in the fledgling Fediverse want to embrace Threads' massive size to bootstrap the network's stagnant growth. Others fear that it is exactly this size imbalance that will push its small world in undesirable directions 🎨 jacqui.vanliew.draws / 🔗
How Meta decides to implement ActivityPub in Threads will help determine the outcome of what could be the Fediverse’s big bang. “It’s not plug-and-play,” says Ernst. The company will have to choose how closely to allow Threads users to integrate with other Fediverse servers. That includes deciding how easily users can migrate their accounts and networks to other services, and whether to provide support such as tools that redirect followers to a user’s new home.
But conditions are different now. Government officials mulling how to regulate large tech platforms today often turn to the idea of requiring interoperability, says Georgios Petropoulos, a researcher at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Threads is not currently available in Europe, due at least in part to uncertainties related to the EU’s newand other regulations—especially rules related to how Threads user data will interact with data on other platforms, Petropoulos believes.
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