@BeAware I can see your concern re: the 30 day prompt. I was surprised to get this myself yesterday. Seems like a conservative approach to dealing with things like GDPR, etc.
From my POV I think the Threads team remains committed to federating and fully adopting ActivityPub. I'm looking forward to their two way federation launch which will make things a lot more functional and useful.
@mike I hope they prove me wrong, Mike. But to your point about GDPR, I thought this was the reason Threads isn't even available in the EU? Therefore I thought that concern would be mitigated by not being available there at all...
Also, since their "main" partner when starting this was Mastodon, I was thinking they could just implement Mastodon's Authorized Fetch and the issue of blocks and deletes not working, would be fixed, no? But maybe it's not that simple. I just see solutions that possibly could work and see how they're interacting with those who have doubts and it's not quelling those doubts like you are here.
You're doing better PR for threads here than they did yesterday in our discussion. They completely dismissed me.
@BeAware You're right about the EU. But there's a maze of other privacy regulations to navigate. For example in California there's CCPA. Plus there's still a lot of legal ground to map out with posts being propagated and copied across a decentralized set of servers around the world. It's the kind of thing that drives legal departments crazy. It takes a certain amount of courage/commitment to ship a product in this environment given the potential for liability. I need to learn more about Authorized Fetch to say how much of a solution this is or isn't.
Side thread: as far as I can tell regulations like GDPR and CCPA have had limited value to consumers while being incredibly costly to implement for smaller publishers and making the whole web experience painful with yet more popups. These well intentioned regulations are making the big guys who can afford to do all this stuff stronger while making the small guys weaker and at greater risk. Ugh.
@mike alright. It's official. Meta needs to clone you for their PR department. You just earned a lot of trust with this. Thanks for the in-depth, thought out answer! It's definitely thought provoking and adds hope.