I think this is a fair statement, right? #Threads#FakeFediverse
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@ricmac i think it shouldn’t count because threads federation is very limited. you can see posts from outside users and like and follow, but you can’t comment, repost, or share them
@ricmac Separate: AT Proto is 2 years old now. 2 years after ActivityPub launched was 2020. When ActivityPub was published in 2018, the already decentralized fediverse upgraded to it. The argument in the screenshot does not stand.
@Gargron I hear you. If you try and argue the point on Bluesky, you get called a nerd 🤷
@ricmac I have observed some of the same simply by having my Mastodon account bridged to it. The interesting thing is that the person in the screenshot has been on the fediverse since at least 2018 and how differently they seem to remember it.
@ricmac The real reason is that none of the data sources I've seen count it, so I couldn't even if I wanted to.
I don't know for sure whether they are excluding it on purpose or whether Threads is not exposing this information via the same APIs as most fediverse software.
@ricmac followup: it's apparently because threads doesn't expose this information, the best you can do is guess how many have opted in to federation by observing how many threads usernames seem to have showed up in the fediverse. Recent estimates are around 25k
@ricmac yes I think so
@ricmac threads is, by the standard used by most fediverse instances, an unmoderated instance; and is positively hostile against queer and trans folks: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-immigration-gender-policies-change/
@ricmac I'm just glad so many instances blocked Threads here. I remember there was so much controversy when it was first announced, but the mods were right to do that, because of what Facebook or Meta or whatever they call themselves this week likes to do, just sucking up all data everywhere. And they'd do it here, they'd make their stuff the main stuff, and then the rest would be lesser. And we don't need more of THAT crap. They're too big and crappy of a company, who needs em
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