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#Barcelona, #Meta's Twitter competitor, will be ready by summer.

And lest you believe #ActivityPub integration was just some rumour, think again. In a slide, Meta confirms that Barcelona will indeed be decentralized and will be compatible with Mastodon.

Everyone who thought that AT protocol would easily win over ActivityPub, and that #Bluesky would kill Mastodon just because a few influencers joined doesn't understand the sheer marketing power and pull that Meta has at its disposal.

But believe me, I'm not exactly cheering on Meta here. Generally, where Meta goes, shenanigans happen. I simply don't think Meta is capable of releasing a product without dark patterns.

Nevertheless, I don't think the Fediverse is even close to preparing for what will happen once Barcelona starts federating.

We should all be taking Barcelona very seriously.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23730070/instagram-twitter-app-competitor-leak
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This is Instagram’s new Twitter competitor

A leaked marketing slide from Lia Haberman gives us our first look at Instagram’s upcoming “text-based” app that’s supposed to take on Twitter.
Jay Peters (The Verge)
#activitypub #meta #bluesky #barcelona @Social Media News
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Chris Trottier
Chris Trottier
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Here's a very blurry screenshot of what #Barcelona looks like.

This looks very much like text-based version of Instagram.

#barcelona
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ch0ccyra1n :she_her:
ch0ccyra1n :she_her:
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Definitely would be exciting since nearly everyone uses Instagram in my local community. It would be great to be able to follow them on Mastodon. Sadly there's not really anything comparable to bird.makeup for it so I've been basically in the dark since so many events are announced only there :blobcatgooglywtf:

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