> In fact, I'd go so far as to say "a long way out" is a clear victory for the free fediverse's cause.<p>What victory exactly?<p>Meta already sent NDAs to the biggest Mastodon instances before the release of Threads which that got 100M+ users onboarded alone. Even before releasing to the EU which eventually under the digital services act they have to interoperate with the (tiny) fediverse instances to show that they are not incentivising social media lock-in and users can migrate.<p>So what both the author fails to mention is that nothing was stopped, and <i>eventually</i>, ActivityPub is coming to Threads, like it or not and the so-called 'fedi-pact' did absolutely nothing to change that direction.<p>> ActivityPub advocates are optimistic that they'll be able to resist embrace-and-extend.<p>Money is power. Meta has billions and the Fediverse has no where near that amount. 'Principles' does not pay the bills.<p>This author and the article cannot be taken seriously at all. In fact, this post was quite hilarious with such premature claims of 'victory'.