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When people make up conspiracy theories about how Threads won’t support interoperability with the Fediverse because it’s a threat to Meta, I have a simple thought experiment.
Is being able to email non-Gmail users a threat to Google and Gmail?
@carnage4life
That is a very poor analogy. I can't believe you don't see that.
This is a useless, throwaway comment unless you elaborate.
@plasma4045 @carnage4life
Really?
The fact that email has been decentralized/federated for decades but social-networking websites have never been federated until identi.ca and subsequently AP and Mastodon and never a commercial one until today?
Really? Those two are analogous?
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@plasma4045@mas.toIt’s extremely analogous, if that term exists. They’re both federated services which relies on both parties “speaking the same language” to work.
Email didn’t exist for millennia until one day it did.
Also, instance admins can just turn it off if Meta actually does misbehave. That’s a level of control I don’t think we’ve had before.