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Their VR Chat clone didn't quite pan out. Their Twitter clone didn't quite pan out. Onto the Reddit clone.
Technically it was a mastodon clone
i'm curious: what makes it a mastodon clone over a twitter clone?
They could federate with servers if only they had servers that wanted to federate with them.
Threads' plan is to implement the ActivityPub protocol, the one the fediverse is based on.
In theory threads could then be federated with other ActivityPub servers (Mastodon and Lemmy for example).
In practice, many instance admins saw it as meta's way to invade that space with their own proprietary bullshit on top of it so they can progressively take control of it. So many decided to block threads as soon as it would be able to federate with their instance.
yup! there was a huge effort over at https://fedipact.online/ with close to like 1000 signatures
Of course the community blocked it. They didn't even try to disguise their EEE attempt (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish). Duh.
And this isn't the first time. Back in the day Facebook messenger was actually fully XMPP federation compatible! But they pulled the plug on that.
Sure. They targeted Fediverse apps like Mastodon and Bluesky.
One thing I don't understand is why they just didn't buy vrchat or one of the others that are even better. Like spatial or viverse.
Would have been a lot simpler and effective than throwing billion after billion at it.
I mean Microsoft did buy altspacevr and completely screwed it up when they made 'mesh' but Microsoft screws everything up, that's just what they do. It would have been easy to do better than that.
Yeah, unless they build it into instagram like they did with their snapchat and tiktok clones, I don’t think it stands a chance. Their twitter clone is doing pretty well though I think
Their MySpace (or was it Friendster?) clone was a good earner for them despite its crap usability.