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by S0y5 hours ago |
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upvoteby loufe5 hours ago|
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I'm not sure why Threads makes your cut here, trading one walking negative externality of person in control for another is not really a sell to most folks.
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upvoteby Barrin924 hours ago|
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it has Fediverse interop. Skepticism obviously is warranted towards the owners but you can at least interact with an open protocol or consume threads content from a Mastodon instance, say.
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upvoteby danillonunes1 hours ago|
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And Twitter used to have free API access. And Facebook Messenger used to have Jabber compatibility. I don't think those companies deserve any trust in regards of promoting them for their open initiatives.

Threads' activity pub gimmick is just a nice to have. It's the salad of the Big Mac. If you're going to eat it anyway, sure, glad it is there, but it doesn't make it deserve a spot in any serious discussion about healthy food alternatives.

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upvoteby wraptile1 hours ago|
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> it has Fediverse interop.

It has been completely abandoned AFAIK. As expected, the good ol' classic EEE attempt, but it just didn't work due to decentralized architecture and just lack of actual capability from Meta.

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upvoteby pibaker4 hours ago|
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Aren't many big mastodon instances talking about blocking Threads?

I don't like the mastodon culture but tbh I can't fault them for this move. Imagine if every post on r/all suddenly shows up on HN.

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upvoteby unknownfuture3 hours ago|
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There is no one "mastodon culture". The server I'm on (indieweb.social) absolutely is not blocking Threads.
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upvoteby TkTech4 hours ago|
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An interesting new one for Canadians (that's built on AT and interops with bsky) is https://gandersocial.ca/. It uses our national postal service's identity validation, so it dramatically reduces foreign actors and bots, and without handing PII to shady private companies like Persona. They collect no PII either, they just get an "is_a_human" response back from Canada Post.

You can still do read-only things like see threads and follow users as an anonymous user. Just can't post or comment. Only thing I don't like is that it's app-only for now.

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upvoteby dnlzro2 hours ago|
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The web client just became available, actually! https://gander.social/profile/gander.social/post/17876029732...
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upvoteby Melatonic2 hours ago|
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Can us non Canadians sign up somehow ?
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upvoteby huebnerob4 hours ago|
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Wasn’t xcancel, sort of by definition, for people who have already left X?
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upvoteby davidw5 hours ago|
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This article has a good explanation of why "you, yes you" should leave:

https://publiccomment.blog/p/it-is-past-time-for-you-to-quit...

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upvoteby numpad05 hours ago|
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They all get to the point where anime contents start flooding in pinning the system at capacity 24/7, scaring the wrong set of people, and then they chicken out and start dying a long death. This situation itself is downstream event of Twitter doing the same, in a sense.
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upvoteby mrcwinn5 hours ago|
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