I needed to understand the angles on Threads federation in a more rigorous way, so I took a few days to think through and write up my sense of the benefits, risks, and available risk mitigations, along with loopholes that need closing and questions to discuss with fediverse administrators.
This is a blisteringly hot subject for me, so it's hard to keep my head cool enough to understand other people's trade-offs, but I'm trying.
https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads
Erin Kissane /
npub16vw…yp3c
2023-12-22 00:10:27
Author Public Key
npub16vwd5dg7y9xxukwvwjk0uk9wy35v46t7dvsp2272gjgfx8lj9j0sstyp3cSeen on
wss://relay.noswhere.comPublished at
2023-12-22 00:10:27Event JSON
{
"id": "8a9f3defaa9a795ca1a66aac5df0186e806bcb82f7c44049311ef5124ea36725",
"pubkey": "d31cda351e214c6e59cc74acfe58ae2468cae97e6b20152bca4490931ff22c9f",
"created_at": 1703200227,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://mas.to/users/kissane/statuses/111620930081617737",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "I needed to understand the angles on Threads federation in a more rigorous way, so I took a few days to think through and write up my sense of the benefits, risks, and available risk mitigations, along with loopholes that need closing and questions to discuss with fediverse administrators.\n\nThis is a blisteringly hot subject for me, so it's hard to keep my head cool enough to understand other people's trade-offs, but I'm trying.\n\nhttps://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads",
"sig": "0f3a45048b30cc80ba16d122c3bda862a97fe9f864a555301242047dc0b7e933d2ba8c7c1b9cc2cc3939642f597bddf62a3ee968f085c6dfedc156e28679e12e"
}