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It's because the Fediverse doesn't have investors, which is the way I want it.
Who wants to bet that all companies will open up instances once they get wind of it?
Isn't that exactly what Facebook did with Threads?
Kind of. Threads launched without federation, and I don't think it has enabled federation yet.
I just checked. It seems they’re using activitypub as well. So yes, they‘re sort of in the ballpark with it, like kbin. So I suppose you’re right. But the others have to follow.
I honestly thought Threads was just a renamed Facebook chat for the longest time there.
I want to bet, anyone who wants to bet against it?
3000¥ lemmy.world will be stiff competition for them until they start cheating.