Mosseri’s comments on Fediverse integration make sense, and if he thinks that the social media is becoming “more open over time”, then that bodes well for us!
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Mosseri’s comments on Fediverse integration make sense, and if he thinks that the social media is becoming “more open over time”, then that bodes well for us!
“The fediverse is a long-term bet. It isn't driving a lot of Threads growth.It is proving very difficult just to do the basics, particularly from a compliance and a privacy perspective. The standards we're held to are just different, based on our scale. (That's reasonable, that's not a complaint.) And there's a lot of requirements around the world around data separation, around integrity and safety, around all sorts of things that become exponentially more complicated when you're importing data from other servers, which have different rules, that actually are designed to have different rules.
So everything has become at least three, if not six, or seven times more difficult than we thought. But we're committed to it, and we're making progress. We have some announcements coming soon. We just gotta get the basics out. You’ve got to be able to not only post to the fediverse, but to get your replies in the app. Ideally, you should be able to follow accounts from the fediverse in Threads, not just follow Threads accounts on Mastodon servers or clients. So there's still plenty of work to do. But I do believe the world is going to become more open over time. And we should lean into that. And if it takes time, it takes time.”
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