This is what Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor looks like
www.theverge.com
Meta says people want a communications platform that’s “sanely run.”

Here’s everything we know about it so far:

  • It will use ActivityPub.
  • It will be a side app of Instagram.
  • It will most likely be called Threads.
  • Your Instagram verification status will transfer over.
  • There will be easy discovery tools in place: Your Instagram followers will be able to follow you on Threads as well (they won’t transfer over automatically).

What do you think?

  • Acetamide@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I think it is safe to assume that’s happening now anyway. As long as anyone can access the data at the moment, they will too.

    • The Baldness@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      True. Now you’ve got me thinking of ways to identify and prevent accounts from scraping data. I don’t see any way to do that other than rate-limiting, which just delays the problem rather than solving it.