Well, Zuck, guess who's back! Oh, the hilarity...
So Threads is opening itself to the Fediverse?
Remember, kids, that there already used to be a connection between what's the Fediverse today and what's Meta today. That was in 2011 when Friendica one-sidedly established bidirectional federation with Facebook. No, I'm not even kidding. Friendica was fully federated with Facebook. It did require a Facebook account, but still, you could use Facebook without actually using Facebook. People would mirror their entire Facebook timelines into Friendica.
This ended when Facebook found out and changed its developer TOS: Third-party applications that connect to Facebook were only allowed to send data to Facebook, but no longer to extract data from Facebook. This led to the slow death of Friendica's Facebook connector.
Fast-forward to 2023: Facebook (the corporation) is now Meta. And they've created their own micro-blogging service for the Fediverse, namely Threads. And now they're opening it to the Fediverse.
Remember that Friendica is still part of that self-same Fediverse.
And what do you know: One of the very very very first connections to Threads came from, wait for it, Friendica!
I think this calls for a variation on the good old Moe Tossing Barney Out meme.
![Three-panel image macro, based on screenshots from the animated series The Simpsons. The top panel shows pub owner Moe Syszlak, holding perpetual drunkard Barney Gumble by his collar and his pants and throwing him out of his tavern. Barney is labelled, "Friendica". The middle panel shows only Moe, wiping his hands and looking after off-panel Barney with squinted eyes. Moe is labelled, "Facebook (now Meta)". He represents Facebook after making Friendica's bidirectional federation illegal and thus throwing Friendica out. The bottom panel shows shows Moe in an akimbo stance, his fists pressed against his hips as if guarding the entrance to his tavern so that Barney won't come back in. He does not notice that Barney, labelled "Friendica" again, has already entered his tavern again, and he is standing right behind him. This symbolises Friendica, effectively banned by Facebook in 2011, now having re-connected to the self-same corporation, this time to Threads via ActivityPub.](https://friendica.opencloud.lu/photo/link/3173 "Three-panel image macro, based on screenshots from the animated series The Simpsons. The top panel shows pub owner Moe Syszlak, holding perpetual drunkard Barney Gumble by his collar and his pants and throwing him out of his tavern. Barney is labelled, "Friendica". The middle panel shows only Moe, wiping his hands and looking after off-panel Barney with squinted eyes. Moe is labelled, "Facebook (now Meta)". He represents Facebook after making Friendica's bidirectional federation illegal and thus throwing Friendica out. The bottom panel shows shows Moe in an akimbo stance, his fists pressed against his hips as if guarding the entrance to his tavern so that Barney won't come back in. He does not notice that Barney, labelled "Friendica" again, has already entered his tavern again, and he is standing right behind him. This symbolises Friendica, effectively banned by Facebook in 2011, now having re-connected to the self-same corporation, this time to Threads via ActivityPub.")
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Moe Tossing Barney Out
Moe Tossing Barney From Moe's is an image macro featuring a series of frames from an episode of the American animated series The Simpsons.Matt (Know Your Meme)
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Scott M. Stolz
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in reply to Jupiter Rowland • •Content warning: Well, Zuck, guess who's back! Oh, the hilarity...
@Jupiter Rowland and Hello from Friendica. I found out about Friendica for the exact search of a way to interact with people on Facebook without being there. A bit late as at that time only a picture on the Friendica homepage had a reference to Facebook but the bridge plugin was already non functional.
It's an old story: owners of proprietary platforms want to monetize and so do not have benefits from federating as they would then have a much harder time with pushing advertisement. I dunno if Meta now found another way, maybe they'll embed advertisement as an overlay of Activity stream payloads