Because the goal is, in effect, to grow a bigger pie for this kind of service, I think Meta would be wise to think about how to help build an ecosystem of interoperable tools and services. Assuming Threads takes off, ActivityPub will be the way social networks interoperate for at least the next decade and the majority of ActivityPub profiles will be Meta-hosted.
Threads will also let you follow discussions on Mastodon and potentially other services that adopt ActivityPub. Tumblr and WordPress, which share a parent company, have both said they will support publishing on the protocol. In a year or two, then, you might read WordPress blog posts in Threads — or read Threads posts in your favorite Mastodon client.
It’s an almost unthinkable reversal from Meta’s extremely lucrative walled-garden strategy
ActivityPub federation isn’t supported yet but is forthcoming. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri posted:
We’re committed to building support for ActivityPub, the protocol behind Mastodon, into this app. We weren’t able to finish it for launch given a number of complications that come along with a decentralized network, but it’s coming.If you’re wondering why this matters, here’s a reason: you may one day end up leaving Threads, or, hopefully not, end up de-platformed. If that ever happens, you should be able to take your audience with you to another server. Being open can enable that.
Interesting (and much needed) turn of events. 🤞 that Meta will actually really embrace Activity Pub and the open protocols approach.
Respyre has developed an innovative –patent pending– bioreceptive concrete solution. These characteristics create the perfect setting for moss to thrive on.
Moss is incredibly well suited for green facades as moss has rhizoids instead of roots. Rhizoids are nondestructive, they mainly function as an adhesive, leaving the facade in perfect condition where roots are very invasive and demand a lot from the substance they grow from. Our bio-receptive concrete creates a substrate that suit the rhizoids wishes perfectly.
So, what do we mean with bioreceptivity? Something is bioreceptive when it has it’s arms open for nature to settle with it. In our case, the concrete invites mosses and algae to live and grow on it. It is receptive to biodiversity… ;).
Slime mold grows differently depending on the music playing.
In fact, he thinks electrical signaling is pervasive in nature; it is not limited to neurons. Recently, Levin and colleagues found that some diseases might be cured by retraining the gene and protein networks as one might train a neural network.
An intertidal habitat for marine life constructed by the company Living Seawalls
Seawalls are causing intertidal habitats to vanish as ocean levels increase. But eco-entrepreneurs say artificial rockpools and crevices can save wildlife
“Species that inhabit the intertidal zone have evolved to live in that environment,” said Pip Moore, a professor of marine science at Newcastle University. These animals find the world’s rising temperatures very stressful, she says. “Lots of organisms use the natural heterogeneity in the rocky shore to hide away from those stresses – [but] a seawall or even a “riprap” boulder don’t have that complexity of habitat.”
Exactly how badly coastal wildlife is affected by coastal squeeze is not entirely clear, but scientists have found that structures such as Artecology’s Vertipools (above) show a “significantly greater” species richness when compared with a normal seawall after five years. One Bournemouth University team found species of crab, fish and periwinkle living in them that had been absent before.
