@manton My (also apparently wrong) theory was that Europe was the real reason they were DOING ActivityPub

Can’t wait to download so I can see how irritating it is. Must admit, I never thought it would arrive here.

or maybe ActivityPub in a very early state will also be launching next week too.

…I’m always t 🤞🏾 and thinking “why not both?”

Can’t wait to try it

@starrwulfe I was wondering that too. It seems ambitious to scale up to connecting to any fediverse server and expand to Europe, all before the holidays. Launching anything mid-December is kind of rough on employees too, but that’s another issue.

as someone working for a major IT/cloud/software conglomerate, I can tell you the sun never sets in companies as big as Meta; don’t just think of the programmers working on it being located in the US or Europe…

From a French, and therefore European, point of view, it has always been a problem of compliance with our regulations, which the DMA has drastically tightened. Typically, if Meta wanted to launch Threads here in France, they had to allow people not to have Instagram to sign up. Similarly, it would have to be possible to delete your Threads account immediately without having to delete your Instagram. In short, each application had to be properly compartmentalised. With that out of the way, at least on the surface, the launch can go ahead.

@manton I know I was hoping to see more progress by now.

I don’t believe it has been officially announced, so it’s still a rumor. I read a rumor that the solution is that one doesn’t have to be signed in to see the posts, making it open, scrapable. Don’t expect ActivityPub anytime soon, if ever. See how difficult it has been for Tumblr. At scale it has to work, edge cases ironed out. This takes time and effort, for basically little financial return in the short term, since the others are so tiny compared to Threads.