Going by comments in the post, the required login is coming in waves, so not all people may notice immediately.
Still, as Reddit is strong-arming its way across, maybe worth signaling to people there that the fediverse may be used without an account, so long as there’s even one instance that implements logged-out view as the protocol allows it?
I don’t have access to my account any longer, possibly VPN ban, though I never tried to recover it so I can only guess why mine is lost, else I’d post myself.
Mastodon has a decent usercount, but I really wish they would at least put a minimal effort into working with the Threadiverse better. It would be a huge improvement if they just made it so following a group/community didn’t put all of the comments on your main feed. Also rendering the contents of Threadiverse posts instead of just giving you the title and link to it.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17008
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/139
Mastodon seems to really not care about any other platforms aside from themselves.
Maybe some other microblogging platform will take over some day, like Catodon.
What Threads is doing is an old strategy of embrace, extend, extinguish.
Google did the same thing with XMPP. When it joined it was welcomed then they introduced incompatible features to encourage existing users to switch to their GTalk. Eventually they “accidentally” broke communication so anyone on XMPP couldn’t talk with users on GTalk and effectively killed XMPP.
I’m confused, I didn’t mention Threads. I think we actually did a good job of keeping Threads out and they already kinda gave up on ActivityPub
Threadiverse = Lemmy+Mbin+PieFed, it’s a term older than Meta’s Threads
Yeah, as you suspected, I wasn’t familiar with that term and wrongly assumed it was about Threads. My bad.
Thanks for the clarification.