Content Moderation: Enforcing actor and behavior-based content moderation will be difficult in the federated environment. The lack of metadata available in Federation makes it harder to stop spammers, troll farms, and abusers.
Privacy Obligations: With Threads content being pulled down and cached by other servers, it becomes challenging to comply with right-to-data-deletion requirements, such as those imposed by GDPR. The Fediverse lacks mechanisms to enforce content deletion.
Competing with Other Platforms: Meta may face difficulties in competing and reaching feature-parity with platforms like TikTok and Twitter while being bound by the feature set of ActivityPub.

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[–] Chipthemonk@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I’m wondering what their motivation was for building it so that it could join the fediverse. I guess they recognize that the fediverse is the future, and they want their hand in that space.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Their goal is to consume the fediverse. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

The fediverse needs to collectively defederate with Meta the second it dips its toes in the water. If we allow it to metastasize here, we're done.

[–] Chipthemonk@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I’ve heard arguments for federating and defederating with Instagram, I mean Threads.

Ultimately, Meta is going to do whatever drives their profit. So if they challenge Twitter, we need to know what will drive their profit, federating, or defederating. I’m sure there will be a lot of good content on Threads over time, just like Reddit. It’s going to be interesting in the next few years…

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