If you had told me as recently as two years ago that Meta was going to create a microblogging platform, I would have scoffed. If you had told me that same network would federate over ActivityPub, I would've laughed in your face. But here we are. It's happening. We're no longer at a point wher

The Fediverse is currently divided over whether or not to block Threads. Here are some of the things people are worried about, some opportunities that might come from it, and what we need to do to prepare.

    • thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      Right, a post embed that results in anybody visiting your site gets tracked by Meta (whether or not they have an account there).

      • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Thank you for your feedback. In the interest of working around this, the embed has been replaced by a video that we downloaded from the announcement post (which we were trying to get anyway) and just used that instead.