Friendica is connected to Zuck's corporation again; CW: long (1,444 characters), eye contact, meme, Meta, Threads, Facebook, Zuckerberg, Fediverse beyond Mastodon meta, Fediverse meta

So Threads is opening itself to the Fediverse?

Remember, kids, that there already used to be a connection between what's the Fediverse today and what's Meta today. That was in 2011 when Friendica one-sidedly established bidirectional federation with Facebook. No, I'm not even kidding. Friendica was fully federated with Facebook. It did require a Facebook account, but still, you could use Facebook without actually using Facebook. People would mirror their entire Facebook timelines into Friendica.

This ended when Facebook found out and changed its developer TOS: Third-party applications that connect to Facebook were only allowed to send data to Facebook, but no longer to extract data from Facebook. This led to the slow death of Friendica's Facebook connector.

Fast-forward to 2023: Facebook (the corporation) is now Meta. And they've created their own micro-blogging service for the Fediverse, namely Threads. And now they're opening it to the Fediverse.

Remember that Friendica is still part of that self-same Fediverse.

And what do you know: One of the very very very first connections to Threads came from, wait for it, Friendica!

I think this calls for a variation on the good old Moe Tossing Barney Out meme.



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