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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/fediversereport/statuses/111138697165483867">Fediverse Report (fediversereport@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:12:18 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport" title="fediversereport@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/91223-48-20230125085928.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Fediverse Report" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Fediverse Report</a><div><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/111138690795544384" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>Zuckerberg says that he has always believed in decentralized social media protocols, but that it's too complicated to implement it in Facebook. He says that the opportunity cost of transitioning an existing platform is too big. Threads is different, because they are starting from scratch.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2110575#notice-4144476">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-09-28T04:12:18+09:00" title="Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:12:18 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/111138697165483867" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/111138697165483867">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1577003">Alex: This hasn’t happened yet with Threads, but you’re eventually going to hook it into ActivityPub, which is this decentralized social media protocol. It’s kind of complicated in layman’s terms, but essentially, people run their own servers. So, instead of having a centralized company run the whole network, people can run their own fiefdoms. It’s federated. So Threads will eventually hook into this. This is the first time you’ve done anything really meaningful in the decentralized social media space. Mark: Yeah, we’re building it from the ground up. I’ve always believed in this stuff.Alex: Really? Because you run the largest centralized social media platform. Mark: But I mean, it didn’t exist when we got started, right? I’ve had our team at various times do the thought experiment of like, “Alright, what would it take to move all of Facebook onto some kind of decentralized protocol?” And it’s like, “That’s just not going to happen.” There’s so much functionality that is on Facebook that it’s way too complicated, and you can’t even support all the different things, and it would just take so long, and you’d not be innovating during that time.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/138/697/041/989/553/original/8dc851281dc908d0.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/138/697/041/989/553/original/8dc851281dc908d0.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Zuckerberg says that he has always believed in decentralized social media protocols, but that it's too complicated to implement it in Facebook. He says that the opportunity cost of transitioning an existing platform is too big. Threads is different, because they are starting from scratch.
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1. Alex: This hasn’t happened yet with Threads, but you’re eventually going to hook it into ActivityPub, which is this decentralized social media protocol. It’s kind of complicated in layman’s terms, but essentially, people run their own servers. So, instead of having a centralized company run the whole network, people can run their own fiefdoms. It’s federated. So Threads will eventually hook into this. This is the first time you’ve done anything really meaningful in the decentralized social media space. Mark: Yeah, we’re building it from the ground up. I’ve always believed in this stuff. Alex: Really? Because you run the largest centralized social media platform. Mark: But I mean, it didn’t exist when we got started, right? I’ve had our team at various times do the thought experiment of like, “Alright, what would it take to move all of Facebook onto some kind of decentralized protocol?” And it’s like, “That’s just not going to happen.” There’s so much functionality that is on Facebook that it’s way too complicated, and you can’t even support all the different things, and it would just take so long, and you’d not be innovating during that time.
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