Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoThreads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integrationwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square260fedilinkarrow-up1511arrow-down125cross-posted to: fediverse@lemmy.worldfediverse@kbin.socialfediverse@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1486arrow-down1external-linkThreads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integrationwww.theverge.comGhostalmedia@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square260fedilinkcross-posted to: fediverse@lemmy.worldfediverse@kbin.socialfediverse@lemmy.ml
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·11 months agoIf it federates with ActivityPub, it won’t be.
minus-squaresour@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down3·edit-211 months agois have all users on one instance
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·11 months agoThe Threads software will still be centralized, but the network won’t be. It’s a bit like saying outlook.com email is centralized.
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 months agoIt’s big, and that’s absolutely a threat from an embrace/extend/extinguish perspective. A big node on a decentralized network is still part of a decentralized network unless they start breaking the decentralization.
minus-squaresour@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·11 months agobig node is still centralized
minus-squareDark Arc@social.packetloss.gglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-211 months agoAnd the sky is still blue? Who cares?
minus-squaresour@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·11 months agopoint of fediverse is decentralization ._.
minus-squareDark Arc@social.packetloss.gglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-211 months agoAll individual nodes are centralized. One of those nodes being big doesn’t mean the entire system becomes “centralized.” Email is decentralized despite Gmail having the major market share by far.
If it federates with ActivityPub, it won’t be.
is have all users on one instance
The Threads software will still be centralized, but the network won’t be. It’s a bit like saying outlook.com email is centralized.
It’s big, and that’s absolutely a threat from an embrace/extend/extinguish perspective. A big node on a decentralized network is still part of a decentralized network unless they start breaking the decentralization.
big node is still centralized
And the sky is still blue? Who cares?
point of fediverse is decentralization ._.
All individual nodes are centralized. One of those nodes being big doesn’t mean the entire system becomes “centralized.”
Email is decentralized despite Gmail having the major market share by far.