Adam Mosseri:
Second, threads posted by me and a few members of the Threads team will be available on other fediverse platforms like Mastodon starting this week. This test is a small but meaningful step towards making Threads interoperable with other apps using ActivityPub — we’re committed to doing this so that people can find community and engage with the content most relevant to them, no matter what app they use.
100% agree, I think most reactions here are blown way out of proportion even though I can relate to the general “fuck meta” attitude.
Meta is a trash organization and I think it’s completely fair to approach this with skepticism and some “fuck Meta” attitude. After all, Meta has a demonstrated history of promoting toxic social media habits.
I think, broadly speaking, the fediverse’s exaggerated takes, misinformation that’s outright lies, and aggressiveness on this issue is showing that corporate owned social media isn’t the only harmful social media though.
Facebook/Twitter/etc. had a financial incentive for divisiveness and uncivil discussion. The fediverse doesn’t have this incentive. It’s people voluntarily choosing to do it themselves on the platform they wanted to use as a lifeboat, except now it’s spread out across several servers.
Of course cooperate social media isn’t the only harmful social media, if anything it might be the most civil one for its scale, simply because they’re trying to sell ads next to the content so the content can’t be complete garbage. They also have a bunch of other incentives that ultimately make it a shit experience for everyone, but there is an incentive to moderate.
Something to remember is that it isn’t the company producing the harmful content. It’s people.