Threads Self Migration Feature...
from AllAmericanBitch@sh.itjust.works to fediverse@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 21:58
https://sh.itjust.works/post/21376591

Do you think Threads (Meta’s Product) will add such a feature that allowed anyone to migrate their account to their own server? I have no belief that they’ll do, but I can only hope, as I love that feature on Fediverse platforms (mastodon comes to mind).

I know that it’s still not perfect as I’ve read on some Mastodon thread by a few users saying it doesn’t migrate a lot of your stuff (posts included), but hopefully threads could help improve this for us Fedi users.

Again, feel free to downvote this because of the Threads TM relation in the title. I know you guys (and gals) hate Meta, me too. :)

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poVoq@slrpnk.net on 25 Jun 22:07 next collapse

They have been talking about how creators want to own their platform and I could imagine that they don’t mind allowing a few such people to migrate off Threads to facilitate that. In the end what matters to them is that the large audience stays on their platform where they can serve them personalized advertisements.

AllAmericanBitch@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jun 22:20 collapse

yeah, not alot of people enable the fediverse feature on ThreadsTM anyways. I can see what you mean there for personalized Adverts.

large audience stays on their platform where they can serve them personalized advertisements

Zak@lemmy.world on 26 Jun 10:21 collapse

I’m guessing not a lot of users know about it. Their ActivityPub implementation is still only about half done.

It will be interesting to see of they promote it heavily when it’s more complete.

originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com on 25 Jun 22:09 next collapse

i hope so. its part of the reason i run an instance. to give people a place to migrate to, but still be able to contact their peeps.

haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com on 26 Jun 05:41 next collapse

Yeah, awesome if threads make it easy to go from free to corporate without a hussle /s

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 26 Jun 06:06 next collapse

The fact that they have any Fedi integration whatsoever is a mystery to me but I’m gonna say no regardless.

slazer2au@lemmy.world on 26 Jun 07:47 collapse

Integration so they can slurp up people’s data. That is their entire business model, slurp up data and sell advertising profiles based on that data.

Zak@lemmy.world on 26 Jun 10:19 next collapse

There’s nothing keeping them from scraping that kind of data now.

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 26 Jun 15:43 collapse

All of that data is public. Federating Threads gives them access to zero additional data.

h3ndrik@feddit.de on 26 Jun 07:02 collapse

Probably for European users if Europe decides to force gatekeeping platforms to implement such a feature.