Richard Gaywood on Nostr: I must confess, I am not seeing the reason for quite such a "the sky is falling" ...

I must confess, I am not seeing the reason for quite such a "the sky is falling" reaction to Threads starting to interop with Mastodon. I have friends there, and I would like to read their stuff (and have them read my stuff) without subjecting my eyeballs to the Threads UI, or contributing ad views to the house of Zuck. I'd also like to gently encourage them to migrate to Mastodon in the future, which seems a lot more likely to happen if they can still see all the stuff they care about that's currently locked inside the Threads walled garden.

Inside any Big Tech firm, there will be people arguing for and against open platforms and protocol interoperability. We're not helping the people trying to open things up if we attack the outcome when they make progress.