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Why Meta is looking to the fediverse as the future for social media


Meta's move into the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is puzzling. Does the Facebook owner see open protocols as the future? Will it embrace

On McCue’s “Flipboard Dot Social” podcast, he spoke to two leaders building the Threads experience, Director of Product Management Rachel Lambert and software engineer Peter Cottle. For instance, fediverse advocate and co-editor of ActivityPub Evan Prodromou created a paid Mastodon account (@evanplus@prodromou.pub) that users could subscribe to for $5 per month to gain access. Perhaps Meta, too, sees a future where its existing moderation capabilities become a subscription revenue product across the wider open social web.

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