Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, made a groundbreaking
announcement: Meta's Twitter platform, Threads, will start trying a way to
connect with the "fediverse," a network of social media platforms
that can work with each other. This choice is a big step forward for Meta and
the fediverse, which works like email and lets data freely flow between social
networks.
ActivityPub is a set of rules that many smaller,
community-run social media sites, like Mastodon, use. Threads will start using
it. This is a big deal for ActivityPub because it brings the biggest player
into the fediverse so far. ActivityPub is also supported by Wordpress.com and
Flipboard, but Threads' participation is on a scale that has never been seen
before.
About 11 million people use the fediverse, mostly on
Mastodon. This is less than sites like Threads. On the other hand, Threads had
100 million users in its first five days after it launched in July, though it
has been less active since then. At the same time that Zuckerberg made his
news, Threads started to reach more European countries. This is happening at a
time when X (formerly Twitter) might have legal problems in Europe.
Zuckerberg said that the connection with ActivityPub was
just a test and didn't give an exact date for when it would be finished. Adam
Mosseri, the head of Instagram, said that the connection would start with
letting users of other ActivityPub platforms follow users on Threads. In the
future, users will be able to follow each other as well.
People could follow Threads users and see their posts
without having to sign up for Threads, which currently needs an Instagram
account. This is because Threads could fully integrate with ActivityPub. Mike
McCue, co-founder and CEO of Flipboard, said that this integration should make
ActivityPub's network effect a lot stronger.
But because it is autonomous, a large fediverse could have
problems, especially when it comes to content control. It might be harder to
fight misinformation and false information. Mozilla has started to look into
how material can be moderated in the fediverse.
People are excited about Threads being added to the
fediverse, but some are worried that a tech giant like Meta could take over and
control how the network works. In terms of how it works and is controlled, this
move could change the nature of the fediverse.
This change is especially important when it comes to social
media marketing. With Threads now part of the fediverse, digital marketing and
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the fediverse.
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