Their VR Chat clone didn't quite pan out. Their Twitter clone didn't quite pan out. Onto the Reddit clone.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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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.
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.
Dude lucked out on a friendster lookalike and has never come up with a successful original idea since. Also, is he putting on a fake tan in that tumbnail?
Sucking up to Trump?
I would bet money on the fake tan
Maybe he's laid off the suncream since the last time the papparazi got him:
Stop shooting with a camera
Jesus... more like sun scream, amirite?
He do be thicc tho
thicc (derogatory)
Mark Zuckerberg is one of the worst humans alive. Right below Trump, Netanyahu, and Elon. They all gotta go.
Did Putin die? Otherwise it's difficult to understand why he's not in that list.
Fuckerberg is just an unoriginal, soulless husk, ain't he?
“So like Chris [Cox, Meta’s chief product officer] and I have been talking about, ‘all right, well, can we build 50 new apps? Like, yeah, probably,” Zuckerberg is quoted to have said in the article. “But we probably should start by doing a few before we just, like, ramp up trying to do 50 all at once.”
Motherfucker intends to flood the app market with slop-at-scale. The fuck kinda 50 apps would you even come up with?
- App that shows you AI slop that looks like reddit
- App that shows you AI slop that looks like amazon
- App that shows you AI slop that looks like google
- App that shows you AI slop that looks like twitter
- App that shows you AI slop that looks like yahoo ....
TIHI
Has meta ever invented anything? I always thought it was ironic he called out apple for iPhone and then doing nothing, but all they've successfully created was Facebook, they bought everything else and illegally sold our data to get rich
...and communities you care about
from meta? not a snowball's chance in zuckerberg hell.
"Perhaps to spice things up a bit, this time around, Meta is also including a dedicated AI assistant in the app."
Yo dawg! I love a little spice on my reddit clone jus like I like a little shimma shimma shine on my fake vomit.
Looks like we've found an even better way to keep the stupidest people off Lemmy.
I wish it was actually a decent reddit replacement, if reddit wasnt the only option and ppl got used to using more than one service they would be more open to trying lemmy too, it's why I wanted digg to succeed
Let them fight. It’ll be entertaining. If we’re incredibly lucky (we won’t be incredibly lucky) they’ll find a way to bankrupt each other.
How do they manage to always find the creepiest photos of Zuckerberg? The skin around his eyes is light green lol
Maybe these are his best looking photos.
lol only 20 years too late.
Lemme guess, there won't be any "sort by" and instead the AI will give us post that the clank think we want?
Zuck is taking tanning tips from trump. In no time his eyes will look like bleached assholes too
And Reddit looks a lot like all those dialup BBS s that we used to have back in the 80s or 90s, can't remember. Before the web. Someone would post an article or maybe a picture, others would comment on it. It's all the same shit, same basic format, even here. Only the quality of people is different.