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:pona_plush: #FediPact :pona_plush:

:pona_plush: FEDIPACT HAS A CUTE NEW MASCOT!!! :pona_plush:

this cute little hot pink teddy bear is named Pona!!!!! that's toki pona for "good." like i dunno i just kinda wanted to make her the mascot so i could use this image for something so yeah she's the mascot now!!!!! i also added her to the website and such and she looks so at home on there :3

you can also look at the #PonaAdventures hashtag if you wanna see her fun travels to various irl places!!!

small hot pink teddy bear plushie named Pona atop a hot pink background
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The Nexus of Privacy

In terms of Threads account portability, @davidimel's excellent question, and @pcottle's response: Mosseri was very candid about the goal here in his original quote in July 2023:

“I think we might be a more compelling platform for creators, particularly for the newer creators who are more and more savvy, if we are a place where you don’t have to feel like you have to trust us forever.”

And his Mosseri's December 2023 quote is similar:

"Eventually, it should also be possible to enable creators to leave Threads and take their followers with them to another app/server") is along the same lines."

As I said in Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the Fediverse

Hmm, "eventually" is doing a lot of work there. How long will it take, and real will the story turn out to be? It's hard to know. For one thing, Mosseri has said that Threads' current plan is to "explicitly opt in to your content being available on other servers"; while that's good from a privacy and safety perspective, if they follow through it would also mean that creators to leaving won't be able to take all their followers with them. [If somebody's following you on Threads but hasn't opted in to federation, then when you move to an instance in the real fediverse they won't be following you any more.] And until "eventually" happens, creators can't actually move any of their followers to the fediverse. So we shall see.

But from Meta's perspective, so what? As Mosseri says, the goal here is to make people feel like they don't have to trust Meta forever. It's a good story, and that by itself has a lot of value at this point. It's getting favorable coverage in the tech press, too."

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Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds

The Threads team at Meta has spent the past year working on supporting the broader fediverse and social web, and is launching its biggest integrations yet: a new dedicated feed for fediverse posts, and a way to search for fediverse users inside of Threads.

Starting today, if you’ve turned on fediverse sharing in Threads, there will be a new section at the top of your Following feed that takes you to a list of posts from folks you follow on Mastodon, Flipboard, or wherever else you’ve connected your Threads account. It’s very much a separate feed, which Meta software engineer Peter Cottle tells me is deliberate.

theverge.com/news/688267/threa

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The Verge · Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feedsBy David Pierce
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just small circles 🕊

@bespacific @jeff @TheAdmin

Quite a few have blocked #Threads. See #FediPact, though I don't know if the list is still actively maintained and up-to-date.

fedipact.online

Other than that #Meta has taken strategic position on the #ActivityPub #Fediverse, and effectively hold the cards. Opinions vary on this.

In any case building it was a big success for them. Built on a dime on top of #Instagram stack, see:

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.c

I'd say they are ready to pounce but ONLY if needed.

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‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number

> Waiting on the platform for a morning train that was nowhere to be seen, he asked Meta’s WhatsApp AI assistant for a contact number for TransPennine Express. The chatbot confidently sent him a mobile phone number for customer services, but it turned out to be the private number of a completely unconnected WhatsApp user 170 miles away in Oxfordshire.

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · ‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s numberBy Robert Booth
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