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Folks, the reason #Facebook/ #Instagram/ #Meta/ Zuckerberg hasn’t launched #Threads in the #EU isn’t because the EU is determined to protect your privacy, it’s because the EU is determined to protect The Single Market (peace be upon it) from anticompetitive behaviour. It’s because they’re using Instagram to launch Threads and sharing data between them (and not with EU startups that might want to use that data too). It’s #antitrust, not #privacy. It’s markets, not people.
By the way, it’s possible that #Facebook/ #Instagram/ #Meta/ Zuckerberg’s fediverse play for Threads is related to sidestepping the anti-competitiveness/antitrust issues around the EU’s Digital Services Act.
“Hey, look, we’re not a monopoly. We’re not being anticompetitive… we’re federating using an open protocol. Here, let our friend Eugen, CEO of Mastodon, explain to you how it works in very dispassionate words…”
@aral I agree with @Gargron on this and I am not in favour of preemptive defederation.
The whole promise of the fediverse is that it can't be taken over, and this is a huge test to see how it works out when a big corporation federates.
Building up walls between us and millions of people makes no sense to me. I don't want to be part of a niche platform where some gatekeepers want all instances to do the same thing.
We'll see how Threads moderates. If it impacts us, we can defederate then
@aristeon89 @Gargron Good for you.