Exactly. XMPP has hundreds of millions of users too (billions of you count WhatsApp's non-standard version) and Matrix has close to 100 million but we don't consider them part of the fediverse either.
thenexusofprivacy
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Not as far as I know.
No, Meta claims that Threads has 100 million monthly active users, the fediverse as a whole has 1.4 - 1.7 million depending on whose statistics you use. Even if they're exaggerating, it's still much got a lot more users.
Why would Threads want to do that? Opt-in is better for their users from a privacy and safety perspective, and it's better for their business because it makes migration harder. And if Threads doesn't do that, politicians et al care more about reaching a large audience than about pushing Threads to try to change their mind.
That's the only one that's currently active as far as I know. https://mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE/110586556696261405 has a bunch of resources including blocklist for other Meta domains as well.
Glad you liked it, I like to put in a treat for people who read all the way to the end!
It's not a typo but I see what you mean, I meant that it has a lot fewer people in it but it's not great wording and I'll fix it. Thanks!
It would be great, but Threads has said that their plans are that people will have to opt in to federation. So if they follow through, why would politicians (or the others you mention) prefer to be on an instance where they only get access to a fraction of Threads' huge audience?
Yep, I've said for a while that if a schism with transitive defederation happens, it'll be a good thing. There are many fediverses!
That's a great article. I linked to it in the OP:
The same is true with Google's adoption and then abandonment of the XMPP protocol, which is also often described as EEE. I don't think that's the right way to look at it; for one thing, XMPP is still around, and thanks to adoption by Zoom and others it has hundreds of millions of users – or billions, if you count WhatsApp'a non-standard derivative version. But in any case, whether or not it was EEE, Google didn't go into it with a goal of killing XMPP. They just wanted to exploit XMPP to address a business problem of making Google Talk successful – and did so, until it wasn't useful to them any more.
Yes, Mastodon instances can indeed refuse to federate with Threads -- you're not misunderstanding anything. You can track what instances are and aren't federating at https://fedipact.veganism.social/ (the "FediPact" it mentions is an agreement that hundreds of instances have signed to block Meta). Currenntly, about 40% of instances aren't federating -- but most of the largest instances are.
Right, a post embed that results in anybody visiting your site gets tracked by Meta (whether or not they have an account there).