1. Meta embraces ActivityPub, federates with mastodon.social, uses Fediverse servers as a "look at all the people you can talk to on day one!"
2. People on Fediverse start following/mingling with Threads accounts, thereby tightly integrating the network effect between the two
3. People decide that if they can get access to the Fediverse through Threads instead of Mastodon, which is for "dumb nerds", they'll go with Threads
4. "Threads will be ending support for ActivityPub on September 1st, 2026 - click here to import your Mastodon account"
5. Fediverse users leave en masse so they can keep talking to their friends on Threads
6. Blog post Eugen: "I didn't want to believe they would go this far"
> 1. Meta embraces ActivityPub, federates with mastodon.social, uses Fediverse servers as a "look at all the people you can talk to on day one!"
Yeah, if they follow the Mastodon playbook they'll call Fedi the Streams network and say that the Streams network already has millions of users, plus show posts from all over Fedi on their start page firehose.
According to the Daily mail article on Threads it uses the following data
Health and Fitness
Financial Information
Contact Information
User Content
Browsing History
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Purchases
Location
Contacts
Search History
Identifiers
Sensitive Information
Other Data
So just as we syspected.
