Instagram’s new Twitter competitor (ActivityPub included)

People still strongly dislike FB/Meta though.

> Such a clever move from Meta. Drags down rival Twitter while retaining maximum eyeballs within their ecosystem.

So more centralization wins again?

> Unlocking ActivityPub content as a new option to slap ads over for folks who stay within the Meta ecosystem, of which there is no shortage of folks.

This 'ActivityPub' interoperability also happened with Gab, which became the largest Mastodon instance at one point and then almost all instances de-federated with it.

If Instagram interoperate with Mastodon, Instagram will essentially be the largest one using ActivityPub and like Gab, there is a good chance that these other Mastodon instances will instance-level and de-federate with Instagram.

Instagram's success on ActivityPub is also Mastodon's nightmare and it tends to more centralization.