How do you feel about meta hypothetically pressing the phase 2 button, which updates threads to have a reddit-like mode that federates and uses lemmy content as free seed content?
They could enter the reddit-like social media sector.
edit: Ok, apparently I wasn’t clear enough, I’m not talking about the past, I’m talking about a full Apollo/rif app style interface being added in a hypothetical future patch to threads.
I’ll be honest, I’ll assume bad faith from Meta until proven otherwise.
A good example here is the first version of Google chat, which federated with jabber - until it didn’t. I was quite vocal about converting my friends to it because it was an easy entrance to jabber, with a brand and interface they trusted.
Then once it was big enough, jabber federation was cut off and we looked like the weird outsiders.
Federating Meta will feel like a win right up until it doesn’t.