• lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    If you think Meta will allow the Threads algorithm to show anything from the fediverse you are unbelievably naive. And that’s if content from the fediverse even makes a blip on a platform with 100x the size.

    Meta doesn’t federate with the goal of giving Threads users an out. They federate because it’s the most efficient way to scrape fediverse instances and build profiles on fediverse users.

    Meta has reached saturation with their existing services so they are now branching into any possible extra source of data they can. They’ll take anything, from fediverse federation to Whatsapp emails. All your data is welcome to them.

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      11 months ago

      They federate because it’s the most efficient way to scrape fediverse instances and build profiles on fediverse users.

      That’s not true. Quiet scraping is much easier to implement than integrating AP into your platform.