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Remindme! 4 days
@remindme@mstdn.social 4 days
@wanderingmagus Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Oct 9, 2024 at 3:01 PM PDT.
Me also
Unfortunately they postponed it 11 days because Meta, of course, also announced an unrelated program named "Loops", and now the FOSS project manager doesn't want to release something that would seem like an afterthought in comparison. 11 days is apparently enough time to do last-minute ultra-polishing to get it ready to tell Threads to go f itself. We'll see what happens.
It's a shame, I hope it will succeed. Do you think Meta's move is related and intentional?
Very possible. It's not like Loops was a secret, and it would be a direct competitor to Instagram Reels. Plus, E/E/E and all that.
I don't follow too much, so I don't know what E/E/E/ is, but it would be interesting if Meta is afraid of the fediverse.
It stands for "embrace, extend, extinguish", a strategy used by Microsoft in the past to take over formerly open source projects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
Many people speculated that the creation of Threads and one-way federation was a similar tactic, and now with the Loops thing.
Thank you for the explanation, it makes sense, destroy them while they are small.