It’s additionally unclear precisely how “transportable” Threads consumer knowledge will likely be in sensible phrases. Critics have usually described Mastodon, one other platform that makes use of the ActivityPub protocol, as extraordinarily clunky and non-intuitive, with transferring from one server to a different a specific problem. It will be in Meta’s fingers, it appears, to construct instruments that may make it simple for customers to depart Threads, however that doesn’t appear in its monetary greatest curiosity. And Meta, a publicly traded firm, doesn’t do issues that are not in its monetary greatest curiosity.
