Yikes.

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    No. They’re using the fediverse, which includes instances of mastodon, but they are making their own client/web portal/whatever you wanna call it. They’re making their own version of the thing that mastodon is, and their versions will be on the same network that mastodon is on.

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      I understand that ActivityPub ≠ Mastodon however from their UI it feels like a fork of Mastodon with all the Meta bs on top, i might be wrong but it just feels like they saw the opportunity and took. I say this because of even the naming of the app which seems like a direct reference to the Mastodon threads.

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        1 year ago

        Idk what you’re talking about. Mastodon is just an ugly-looking Twitter, and Twitter used the term threads long before Mastodon did. They’re all just copying Twitter

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          Maybe connecting it with the threads of mastodon is a stretch, and I am not talking “Idea wise” who they’re copying I’m talking about the literal code of the meta app, it’s a goldmine for them a prebuilt app with most of the features you need and with a protocol that is having some kind of active community? Now maybe they didn’t literally fork mastodon, but the fact that the app seems clearly not finished, It’s like put together in the few weeks a lot of code was probably used or referenced. Now I can’t confirm or deny this, just saying that if they wanted to take the easy route, they definitely could have and from the record of such large corporations I can definitely see them do this.