Threads threatens to muscle in on Mastodon's Fediverse and admins are up in arms about it
If you're as terminally online as most of the modern world today, you'll have been witness to the slow burning dumpster fire that is Musk's Twitter. From the dust of the blue-bird's ashes, a digital migration has begun with users scrambling to find alternatives to the crypto-suffused platform.
Coming up the rear is Meta's latest Twitter competitor, the Instagram adjacent Threads network. Having promised its users future access to something called the «Fediverse» is garnering a lot of hate from a growing anti-Meta «Pact» because of worries that «they are absolutely NOT going to moderate their shit properly.»
Before we get into the controversy, though, we have to understand more about the Fediverse and how it works.
You might've heard the term Fediverse if you've been looking for Twitter alternative social media platforms, particularly in conjunction with the Mastodon social network. While it's easy to pass off the Fediverse as a simple umbrella term for «the web of Mastodon posts what exist,» it's much more than that.
A Fediverse is a «federated universe» of social media networks. Like the federated institutions of the real world, it's a collection of spaces united under one banner, but which are allowed to retain some level of independence when it comes to their rules and how they implement code.
It's similar to how game servers work, where you can hang out in a game instance with North Americans only, or just your buds. If you have your own server you can have whatever mods or console commands you like activated, without disrupting the game for everyone else.
More importantly, you can keep certain people out.
If you want to get really metaphorical, the Fediverse is like a series of houses in a town. In this way,
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