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Unanswered questions

I appreciate the concerns and possibilities stated here. It is not just about Instagram or Threads. Any profit driven commercial social media will focus only on the following:1. Obtaining your personal data to sell, and2. More eyeballs in front of more ads.I still do not have clarity about the business motivation of Meta in this case. I am aware that if Meta has to maximize its profits through Threads, it has to find ways to maximise data harvesting or data exploitation. As on today Threads has 141 million users. Bluesky currently has over 2.4 million users, and the waitlist has ballooned to over 1.9 million people. Fediverse has 13.84 million users with 1.73 million active monthly users.

Is Meta so concerned that this small user base could create momentum on a variety of issues because those issues don't typically disappear via an algorithm like they do in other spaces? By supressing the voice of this small user base will advertising revenue of Meta increase? There is already lot of anit-capitalism in commercial social media. Many users of Fediverse are also active in other for-profit social media. Will Threads also interface with Bluesky? Or will Bluesky and Fediverse become interoperable in near future?

I still prefer to wait and watch this space with caution. "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" or "embrace, extend, and exterminate" (EEE) cannot be ruled out since my level of visibility is very limited. Although Meta has apparently taken steps to enhance transparency and trust, there are still concerns and negative perceptions regarding its trustworthiness, particularly related to data privacy and user trust.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Threads #Meta #EEE

cc: @srijit@mas.to