#Barcelona
𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗮 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝘁𝗮 𝗻𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘁𝗳𝗮𝘀𝗲
FC Barcelona is ontsnapt aan de eerste nederlaag van dit seizoen in La Liga. De kampioen keek na 80 minuten voetballen in het thuisduel met RC Celta uit Vigo tegen een achterstand van 0-2 aan. Maar Robert Lewandowski (twee keer) en João Cancelo bezorgden de ploeg van trainer Xavi alsnog een zege (3-2).
navigated with unusually healthier doses of wonder
#Barcelona #Digital #Edited #GNUImageManipulationProgram #Overlapped #StreetPhotography
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unto paths otherwise open to unimpeded possibility
#Barcelona #Digital #Edited #GNUImageManipulationProgram #Overlapped #StreetPhotography
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Boutiques, restaurantes, las tiendas de chinos cada vez más grandes...es una pasada. Lo están comprando todo.
P.D.: @Biofilia
Avisa cuando vengas a #Barcelona y tomamos un #café y unos #altramuces para @Cucko Sí o qué?
@21dias
⏰ 17:00 - Violencias y resistencias en las fronteras de la UE : ruta balcánica, frontera sur, Italia - Francia...
📍 Can Masdéu (👉mapa)
Link del canal 👉aquí 📣
#Fensterfreitag #WindowWednesday #barcelona #photography As seen in Barcelona.
Vitali Klitschko, alcalde de #Kiev és a #Barcelona per les festes de la Mercè.
Pot ser li haurien de preguntar perqué va renombrar un carrer per Volodymyr Kubiyovych, conegut colaborador nazi y oficial de les SS, a més de creador de les Waffen SS Galizien. Que li pregunti algú.
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Die Sessions der #VMwareExplore 2023 in #Barcelona können bald gebucht werden. Jetzt favorisieren später schneller buchen!
„Discover New Horizons – Destination: The Multi-Cloud Universe“
Die Redner meiner Top-5 Sessions(https://dy.si/dsMQvN):
Duncan Epping, Frank Denneman und Robert Guske (@rguske)
@EU_Commission closing large busy streets in #Barcelona to reclaim space for oplay, kids, bike, life! #MargallRespira
Right now, the Arete Quartet plays #Mendelssohn #Janácek and #Haydn in #Barcelona https://buff.ly/3sXVg53 #wch
In 20 minutes, the Arete Quartet plays #Mendelssohn #Janácek and #Haydn in #Barcelona https://buff.ly/3sXVg53 #wch
Davant les accions repressives de l'Estat, hem de conèixer quines són les eines jurídiques amb les que podem defensar-nos.
📍 Blokes Fantasma
🔴 La Gemma, represaliada per la manifestació contra l'empresonament del company Pablo Hasél, fa una crida a assistir a l'acte de l'#1OctOperacioJudes ❗️
🔥 Aquest primer d'octubre s'ha d'omplir #Barcelona de solidaritat i continuar organitzant-nos fins a conquerir l'#AmnistiaTotal ❗️
22@Barcelona, un districte d’innovació en disputa https://www.elcritic.cat/opinio/22barcelona-un-districte-dinnovacio-en-disputa-173104 #ModelBarcelona #Barcelona #Urbanisme #Poblenou
The way #Barcelona is reclaiming their streets for pedestrians is a model for every car heavy metro in the world.
I live near a 4 lane street in #Houston that is in the middle of a several years long construction project to add bike lanes and trees. The construction annoys everyone.
Meanwhile, Barcelona repaints a road and adds some large planters.
Voila, instant pedestrian park.
Today, the Arete Quartet plays #Mendelssohn #Janácek and #Haydn in #Barcelona https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_arete_quartet_plays_mendelssohn_janacek_and_haydn_in_barcelona/77711/ #wch
Real estate speculators getting a colorful welcome in #Barcelona 🌈
J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Blackrock
#introduction time! :blobfoxdab:
I'm Anpuankhses, a graphic designer and digital Fantasy/Anthro artist from #Barcelona, but in my day to day I work as a leisure and free time educator. This means that I offer playful moments and gamified activities to all kinds of children and teenagers with the finality of educating them in ethical values. :d20: :pawx30_tup:
It took me too long to discover my artistic aspirations and for that reason I do everything possible to improve as an artist. :blobfoxcute:
Concentra-acció contra el Dia Mundial del Turisme. No celebrarem la crisi múltiple que ocasiona : precaritza la vida de les veïnes, mercantilitza l'espai urbà i natural, agreuja l'emergència climàtica...
#BcnAgainstTourism
#CollapseTourismDay
#DecreixementTurístic JA!
⏰ a partir de les 19:00
📍 escales de la Catedral
Right now, del Pino plays #Albéniz, von Henselt #Kapustin and #Chopin in #Barcelona https://buff.ly/44XJUeU #wch
In 20 minutes, del Pino plays #Albéniz, von Henselt #Kapustin and #Chopin in #Barcelona https://buff.ly/44XJUeU #wch
Arbitrul #Ovidiu #Hațegan a devenit pasagerul cu numărul 1 milion din 2023 pe Aeroportul din #Timisoara.
A fost oficial în camera VAR la meciul din ⚽#ChampionsLeague, #Barcelona – Antwerp.
#News #Știri #România #Spania #Timiș #Timișoara #Sport #Fotbal
🎧 What I'm on right now.
#90s clubbing in #London with #MPeople. The band say the brief for the "One Night in Heaven" video was, "Have a good time!" Filmed in #barcelona #EddieFM #HeatherSmall #House
Today, del Pino plays #Albéniz, von Henselt #Kapustin and #Chopin in #Barcelona https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/del_pino_plays_albeniz_von_henselt_kapustin_and_chopin_in_barcelona/77710/ #wch
Right now, the Mandelring Quartet plays #Cruixent and #Liszt with Krimmel and #Beethoven in #Barcelona https://buff.ly/3ZpOKAb #wch
In 20 minutes, the Mandelring Quartet plays #Cruixent and #Liszt with Krimmel and #Beethoven in #Barcelona https://buff.ly/3ZpOKAb #wch
#Mobilització #veïnal al #barri de la Vila de Gràcia.
Cal que sumem totes les mans possibles i treballem colze a colze per revertir les conseqüències de la massificació turística i la gentrificació que, progressivament, ens expulsen de casa nostra.
📢 Us convoquem a la Primera Trobada Oberta, que serà el pròxim *dimecres 27 de setembre a les 19 h* a l'EJ LaFontana. Veïnat, associacions, col·lectius, veniu a dir-hi la vostra!
Gràcia per les veïnes.
🗣️ Avui les plataformes antirepressives de #Barcelona i #Ponent hem estat presents a la roda de premsa que s'ha fet la presó La Model, s'han explicat totes les activitats que es faran aquest primer d'octubre a diferents punts de #Barcelona.
💥 Aquesta jornada deixa palès de la importància que té estar organitzat per continuar la lluita als carrers per defensar els nostres drets i llibertats democràtiques.
Right now, Stratton plays #Mozart #Albéniz and #Schumann in #Barcelona https://buff.ly/45VEulX #wch
In 20 minutes, Stratton plays #Mozart #Albéniz and #Schumann in #Barcelona https://buff.ly/45VEulX #wch
Dezeen : Mesura furnishes Casa Vasto apartment and gallery with "constellation of objects" https://www.dezeen.com/2023/09/20/mesura-residential-art-gallery-casa-vasto-barcelona/ #Residentialconversions #Spanishhouses #Adaptivereuse #Architecture #Residential #Apartments #Interiors #Barcelona #Spain #all
Today, the Mandelring Quartet plays #Cruixent and #Liszt with Krimmel and #Beethoven in #Barcelona https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_mandelring_quartet_plays_cruixent_and_liszt_with_krimmel_and_beethoven_in_barcelona/77709/ #wch
Writing today about a food walking tour I took in Barcelona that ran for 5.5 hours! Lots of tasty food on the way...
¡Recuerdos Azteca! 😎
Un 19 de septiembre pero de 2017, Messi firmaba un póker de tantos en la goleada del Barcelona ante Éibar.
¿Lo recuerdas? 🤓
Missatge de la PAB:
🚨 Demà a les 11 del matí davant de la presó La Model RdP conjunta amb els col·lectius que hem organitzat la jornada del primer d'octubre.
🤜🤛 Aquest dia va per tots i totes les represaliades, omplim #Barcelona de solidaritat i lluita antirepressiva.
Organitzacions socials i ambientals es mobilitzen aprofitant la presència dels màxims responsables europeus del transport.
#EmergènciaEcològica
#JustíciaEcosocial
⏰ 16:15 - acció reivindicativa a l'Estació de Sants
📍 Plaça dels Països Catalans
⏰ 17:00 - jornada de moviments socials
📍 c/ Calàbria, 66
Right now, chamber music from #Barcelona: #Vivaldi #Dohnányi and #Cervelló https://buff.ly/3PIvV8g #wch
In 20 minutes, chamber music from #Barcelona: #Vivaldi #Dohnányi and #Cervelló https://buff.ly/3PIvV8g #wch
Aquesta cooperativa d'advocades, que assessora gratuïtament, ofereix un cicle de formació en drets penals, migratoris i laborals.
📍 c/ Reina Amàlia, 3
Amb motiu de la reunió ministerial europea de transport, organitzacions socials i ambientals es mobilitzen.
#EmergènciaEcològica
#JustíciaEcosocial
📍 c/ Calàbria, 66
Right now, chamber music from #Barcelona: #Ravel #Martinu and #Cornudella https://buff.ly/3Rv4v7j #wch
In 20 minutes, chamber music from #Barcelona: #Ravel #Martinu and #Cornudella https://buff.ly/3Rv4v7j #wch
Cristobal Colon in a full color sunset - is featured in Travel Photography Adventures in Analog Times, photobook
A selection of the photos shot while on assignment for travel magazines is now a photobook. More info here: https://bit.ly/tpa_photobook
#travelphotographyadventures #travelphotography #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mm #train #barcelona #sunset
reverberating with movements replacing standpoints
#Barcelona #Digital #Edited #GNUImageManipulationProgram #Overlapped #StreetPhotography
Available as #prints at #RedBubble: https://is.gd/igawef
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extrapolated out of delay the detail polarizations
#Barcelona #Digital #Edited #GNUImageManipulationProgram #Overlapped #StreetPhotography
Available as #prints at #RedBubble: https://is.gd/bawebe
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Cap persona per aquí anirà al concert de #BlindGuardian el dia 26 d'octubre a Razzmatazz? :ablobfoxbongo:
O a l'#AMFest encobert els dies 13 i 14 a #Salamandra a L'Hospitalet? :ablobfoxbongohyper:
#AMFest #LH: Festival de músiques incòmodes, sorolloses y experimentals.
Die passende Bekleidung zum heutigen International Red Panda Day: ein T-Shirt aus dem Zoo #Barcelona.
Das Red Panda Network hat übrigens offizielle #IRPD2023 T-Shirts und Hoodies angeboten, die derzeit ausverkauft sind. Man kann sich jedoch informieren lassen, sollten diese wieder erhältlich sein.
👉 https://www.bonfire.com/alive-and-wild-2023/
#IRPD2023 #InternationalRedPandaDay #RoterPanda #KleinerPanda #RedPanda #PandaRoux #PandaRosso #PandaRojo #Wah #RedPandas #AilurusFulgens #Pandačervená #TagDesRotenPandas #RedPandaNetwork
The appropriate clothing for today's International Red Panda Day: a t-shirt from #Barcelona Zoo.
By the way, the Red Panda Network has offered official #IRPD2023 t-shirts and hoodies, which are currently sold out. However, you can be informed should they become available again.
👉 https://www.bonfire.com/alive-and-wild-2023/
#IRPD2023 #InternationalRedPandaDay #RoterPanda #KleinerPanda #RedPanda #PandaRoux #PandaRosso #PandaRojo #Wah #RedPandas #AilurusFulgens #Pandačervená #TagDesRotenPandas #RedPandaNetwork
From #Lyon 🇫🇷 to southern France on board a #Renfe class S-100 #AVE high-speed train, bound for #Barcelona 🇪🇸. This is an eight-car trainset, originally built in the 1990s and substantially refurbished since. The colours used for the outfitting of the cars create a cosy atmosphere.
Bona gent de can la #Mastodòntia: sabeu d'alguna exposició que sigue bona, debades, a #Barcelona? Me'n recomaneu alguna. Gràcies!
In #Barcelona wird's schon getestet. Ich hätte das auch gerne in #Linz - heute gesehen beim Ars Electronica Festival @arselectronica
👉 Geo-Llum - sam.all.com
https://samall.org/GEO-LLUM
❤️ Artist: #TVBOY in City: #Barcelona Parc de les Glòries, Spain 🇪🇸 2023 - Title: "Dios mío, Ayúdame a sobrevivir a este amor mortal" - ("My God, help me to survive this mortal love. / "Mein Gott, hilf mir, diese tödliche Liebe zu überleben") - #Art #Streetart #Mastoart #Pasteup #PedroSanchez #CarlesPuigdemont #Politic #Satire #Government #Catalunya
More information about this project and the #superblocks project on the website of #Barcelona City Council.
Más información sobre el proyecto en la web del Ayuntamiento de #Barcelona
Someone in #Barcelona must redeem the man on his street corner today .😘💋
💋 Artist: #AlbertoLeon / #AlbertoLeonArt in City: #Barcelona Carrer de Malcuinat, N°1.El Born, Spain 🇪🇸 2023 - Title: "EL BESO" (The Kiss / Der Kuss) (📷 by Eva Priego) - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Artwork #Kiss #Kuss #Beso
9:30 p.m. local time. Kinda still early afternoon in spanish terms. Trams run every few minutes.
Palau Reial (Av. Diagonal), #barcelona #catalunya #españa
#tram #öpnv #transit #evening
A few more notes from Barcelona. About Maverick Viñales' tyre pressure, the misery of Honda, Quartararo going backwards, and how the Misano test may determine Marc Marquez' future, but in a different way than you think.
#MotoGP #Barcelona #Honda #Yamaha #Aprilia #MM93 #FQ20
https://motomatters.com/analysis/2023/09/06/barcelona_motogp_subscriber_notes_part_2.html
🛒Artist: #PADUR / #DanielPadure in City: #Sabadell #Barcelona Spain 🇪🇸 2015 - Title: untitled - (📷 by Ambolito) - #Streetart #Art #Mural #Shopping #Mastoart #Artwork #Classics #GoodMorning !☕🥐🥐
Barcelona Subscriber Notes posted. Why Turn 1 crashes are inevitable in this era of MotoGP, how Pecco Bagnaia got incredibly lucky, and Aleix Espargaro's outsize role in Aprilia's success
#MotoGP #Barcelona #CatalanGP #PB63 #AE41 #Ducati #Aprilia
https://motomatters.com/analysis/2023/09/04/barcelona_motogp_subscriber_notes_why.html
Barcelona Friday round up posted. The problems with grip, who benefits, and why the Honda is the Anti-Aprilia
https://motomatters.com/analysis/2023/09/01/barcelona_motogp_friday_round_up_grip.html
Today in Labor History August 31, 1909: Francisco Ferrer, the Spanish anarchist educator and creator of the first Modern Schools (Escuelas Modernas), was charged as “author in chief” of the uprising known as the “Tragic Week.” He was executed on October 13, 1909, leading to worldwide condemnation. Hundreds of thousands of people participated in the protests that followed, while supporters created new Modern Schools throughout the world, including dozens in the U.S.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #ModernSchool #spain #FranciscoFerrer #education #execution #barcelona #TragicWeek
Barcelona preview posted. The paradox of a fantastic layout and no grip, and why that rewards intelligence over speed. And who might be able to beat Bagnaia.
https://motomatters.com/analysis/2023/08/31/barcelona_motogp_preview_can_aprilia_or.html
I was this years old when I learned that famed architect Antoni Gaudí was killed by a tram.
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Barcelona 2023 - Where did Gaudí die? The tragic death of Antoni Gaudi
#Gaudi #Gaudí #Barcelona #Tram https://www.barcelonayellow.com/bcn-tourist/785-how-when-where-did-gaudi-die
Yesterday I recorded a video of a #CloudChamber ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber ) in one of #Barcelona's #science #museums: #CosmoCaixa #Museum
Hermoso's former club, #Barcelona, released a statement condemning #Rubiales. Barcelona is a major Spanish club with worldwide prestige, so this is not a meaningless statement from them. Kudos!
"FC Barcelona wishes to make clear that it considers totally improper and inappropriate the #RFEF president's behaviour during the Women's World Cup final celebrations."
https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/club/news/3650142/fc-barcelona-statement
New at my Patreon... As I walked around Barcelona, Spain, I often noticed a distinctive flag hanging from buildings. And it wasn't the official flag of Catalonia:
Image of the week: Lone star over Barcelona
#Spain #Catalonia #Barcelona #Flag https://www.patreon.com/posts/image-of-week-88117064
#Barcelona issues heat alert and gives out water and caps to homeless people - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/24/barcelona-issues-heat-alert-and-gives-out-water-and-caps-to-homeless-people sadly, this will become very common #ClimateCrisis
Hi @jon - I've been told you'd like that!
Lacking a high speed connection between #Toulouse & #Barcelona, one could choose to go by regional train.
There are 5 trains a day leaving from Toulouse to the border town of Latour-de-Carol, and 5 Rodalies per day leaving from that town to Barcelona.
It would be ideal... if those trains were synchronised 😬
Instead, the SNCF is systematically arriving 3 to 10 minutes after the Spanish train has left, check it out!
So... What's the point?
⚪ Ein..., immer noch Sommer...
Lieblingsfoto.
🟤 One..., still summer... Favorite
photo.
📷 by Artist: #JordiKoalitic in Loc.: #Barcelona Spain 🇪🇸 - Title: untitled - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Fotografie #Streetfotografie #Marbles #NoAI #Photography ➡️ #APhotoLove
Exactly one month left for my next live show in #barcelona! Come and party 🥳 #synth #synthwave #robertparker
Greening the trackbeds of urban transit isn't just about optics.
A carpet of grass or sedum on 2 kms of track creates 1.5 football fields' worth of green space, reducing air pollution and the urban heat island effect.
(Below: #Barcelona)
🐌Artist: #DavidBcn - in City: 🤫 somewhere in #Barcelona Spain 🇪🇸 - Title: "Gary" - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Snail #Artwork #Lostplaces #Abandoned #Hiddenplaces
Other European cities are also getting #climate #revamps.
#Copenhagen, vulnerable to sea-level rise, has rolled out an ambitious flood adaptation management plan after being hit by record-breaking rainfall in 2011.
#Barcelona's climate plan aims to increase solar power and green spaces, sometimes by revamping whole neighborhoods.
Many cities have not forgotten the punishing heat wave of 2003, when an estimated 70,000 people died in Europe, including 15,000 in France
❤️ Artist: #TVBOY in City: #Barcelona Spain 🇪🇸 2023 - Title: "Free Art" - (📷 by Angelessl) #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Pasteup #Artwork #ArtNotACrime #Graffiti #FreeArt !
Today I started the revisiting process of my older blog posts. I just found that in the code of the path of the images the "-" was somehow replaced with “%20”
So I'm replacing them back and reviewing the text :-)
This one was the first resolved post - https://www.victorbezrukov.com/barcelona-2017-walking-ricoh-gr1s-fujifilm-velvia-100f-part-iv-last-one/
"Barcelona 2017 – walking with Ricoh GR1s and Fujifilm Velvia 100F – part iv"
Take your look, please
#believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #fujifilm #photography #barcelona #travel
Photos I’ve taken at #León 🇪🇸 station in April 2007: pictured here is the daytime #RENFE #Talgo service from #Barcelona. The consist composed of #TalgoIII stock will split here into two: the front part, named #Finisterre, will continue to #Coruña or #Vigo (depending on the day of the week) and the rear part will travel over the #Pajares Pass, as #Covadonga, to #Gijón.
#PastTrainTrips
Our #Erasmus friends plan their #train trips along the following routes:
Trip #1: 2.000 km - #SEVILLE - #MADRID - #BARCELONA - #PARIS - #BRUSSELS
Trip #2: 1.500 km - #STOCKHOLM - #COPENHAGEN - #HAMBURG - #COLOGNE - BRUSSELS
Trip #3: 1.000km - #EDINBURGH - #LONDON - BRUSSELS
Trip #4: 2.200km - #BUCHAREST - #BUDAPEST - #VIENNA - #FRANKFURT - BRUSSELS
Trip #5: 1.800 km - #BARI - #TURIN - PARIS - BRUSSELS
Will they all make it? Find it out in
https://europeanperspective.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-erasmus-friends
⚪ Mehr... Lieblingsfotos?
🟤 More... Favorite photos?
📷 and Art by Artist: #JavierJaen in City: #Barcelona Spain 🇪🇸 - Title: "Rethinking plastic" - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Plastic #Illustration #Photography #Fotografie
➡️ #APhotoLove
💛Artist: #PereBlancoMolina / #PBM in - City : #Barcelona Independencia, 280 Spain 🇪🇸 2023 - Title : "Niño azul del Pushkar, Rajasthan" - #Streetart #Art #Mural #Mastoart #Artwork
I didn’t see anyone report on this, but a 13 slides deck about #meta #threadApp ’s future plans has leaked.
And guess what you can find at the slide 11.... Mastodon compatibility confirmed again.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-instagram-threads-document-shows-upcoming-features-2023-7 (Pay walled)
(this post contains 13 webp pictures, open the post on calckey.social if you can’t view all pictures on your instance)
#project92 #p92 #barcelona #instagram #blockmeta #threads
The #coop which owns the #EuropeanSleeper company is raising 3 M€ in capital to fund the #NightTrain service from #Brussels to #Barcelona and #Prague.
I bought a few shares because their success would help me #StayGrounded. (Also, how cool is it to own a #train [lease, fraction of]?)
It's a high risk investment. No profits expected for years with favourable track prices. No membership/voting rights under 26 k€ invested. Check bylaws etc. in "legal" and "community" tabs.
https://platform.eyevestor.com/eyeventures/NL_EUS?tab=rules
The hottest topic in the #Fediverse right now has to be #Threads, formerly known as #P92 or #Barcelona, the alleged #Twitter killer by #Meta, and what'll happen when it federates with the rest of the Fediverse. So without further ado, here are my thoughts about this.
So why did Meta announce Threads to include #ActivityPub?
Well, it certainly wasn't because they needed a ready-to-use federation protocol. Threads itself will remain a centralised, proprietary, corporate silo with exactly one instance. I mean, when #Tumblr announced to include ActivityPub, this didn't come with the announcement that everyone will be able to run their own Tumblr instance, remember? It just meant that their silo will be able to connect to Mastodon & Co. and quit being a walled garden.
It's more likely that Threads was planned to get ActivityPub support because at least the EU is going to force online services to become interoperable in some ways. And some big corporations are growing cautious of the expected "or else!" So if Meta wants to offer Threads in the EU, Threads will have to be able to connect to something not owned by Meta. So they've decided to include ActivityPub because a) it's ready-to-use, b) it's free-to-use, c) it already has lots of projects and instances and users to connect to, d) it's something Meta has heard of, and e) it isn't Dorsey's #ATproto.
I mean, they could also have played it safe and included #OStatus just to have something they'd theoretically be able to connect to without running into nearly as many renitent netizens opposed to Meta. It'd still pass the #DigitalServicesAct. But they probably don't even know that OStatus exists.
That said, I currently wouldn't be so certain that Threads will actually add ActivityPub. It has never been Threads' unique selling-point. That'd rather be Twitter-like microblogging without Elon Musk or Jack Dorsey at the helm plus one-click registration for Instagram users. Marc Zuckerberg has never wanted to have his own Mastodon. He has always wanted to have his own Twitter. And now that the real deal is on its deathbed, he finally can.
If ActivityPub integration was actually only planned as appeasement towards the EU, it has become completely unnecessary when Threads blew a raspberry and flipped two birds at the #GDPR with its iOS app that phones all your most private data home to Threads and Instagram and Facebook to be sold to the highest bidder. Because of that, Meta is banned from offering Threads in the EU altogether. Why appease to the EU when you're banned there anyway?
So there wouldn't be any reason to be surprised if ActivityPub never came to Threads. After all, #Bluesky has talked big about decentralisation and federation and even the "invention" of #NomadicIdentity (which was actually invented in 2011 and first implemented in 2012 on Red Matrix, known as #Hubzilla today). Bluesky was announced long before Threads. Bluesky was launched long before Threads. And just like Threads, it has yet to deliver. As of now, it's just another centralised, monolithic silo, and third-party developments are the only reason why it isn't entirely a walled garden.
I guess even Jack Dorsey had to realise that it's complete non-sense to create a technological platform for decentralised social networking that's only compatible to itself, save for connectors developed by third parties without his consent. I guess he must have realised just how big and wide-spread the ActivityPub-based Fediverse is and how rapidly it's growing. Decentralising Bluesky now would be like introducing a replacement for e-mail that's completely incompatible with e-mail itself.
In fact, I think that Dorsey had launched the Bluesky project and placed high bets on it before he even knew that the Fediverse existed. And when he found out about the Fediverse, there was no way back anymore. Not without being punished by his investors.
Marc Zuckerberg, on the other hand, knew about the Fediverse when he greenlit Project 92, now known as Threads, for one of its earliest announced features was interoperability with the Fediverse via ActivityPub. That's another difference: He didn't want to compete with the Fediverse, he wanted to connect to it. Whether he actually will, now that one of the main perks of doing so has vanished due to Meta being Meta and the EU reacting accordingly, remains to be seen.
But even if ActivityPub came to Threads, that wouldn't mean that Zuck embraces the Fediverse. He won't. Even if they all used ActivityPub, the Fediverse as we know it now would be direct competition for Threads.
Threads won't tell its users about Mastodon, Akkoma, The Project Still Known As CalcKey, Pixelfed, Lemmy etc. That'd be like Microsoft officially acknowledging that Linux-based operating systems are nice, too, if installed stand-alone instead of Windows. That'd be like Apple officially publishing a list of the top five greatest Android phones with Samsung on #1.
Threads won't tell its users how to migrate to another Fediverse instance. That'd be like Microsoft officially publishing a tutorial on how to wipe your hard drive and replace the Windows on your computer with Ubuntu.
And Threads won't add migration functionality to elsewhere in the Fediverse either. That'd be like Microsoft installing an exporter for personal data on everyone's Windows machines on the next patch day that makes it easier for you to keep your data when replacing Windows with GNU/Linux on your machine.
For a while after ActivityPub has been activated, practically nobody on Threads would make use of it, especially not to connect with users in the rest of the Fediverse. They simply won't know that this rest of the Fediverse exists, much less who exists there. If any connections will be established, they'll be in-bound.
Even these first connections won't come to pass by someone discovering a cool Threads account in their Mastodon timeline. Instead, someone will stumble upon Threads accounts either because they're on Threads themselves or because the addresses of these Threads accounts are published somewhere on the Web, e.g. someone adding their Threads ID to their blog or their website. They'd end up connecting by copy-pasting that someone's Threads ID into their search field.
After these first connections have been established, it will still take very very long for the Threads users to discover that there's a Fediverse beyond Threads. No, really.
For comparison: Many of you came into the Fediverse through mastodon.social. And I dare say that a great deal of those of you did not know anything about decentralisation and instances and all that stuff at that point and instead believed that they had joined another centralised walled garden like Twitter. Someone has told me a while ago that some people who came in through mastodon.social took three months to even notice that Mastodon is decentralised, that many of the toots in their timelines come from someplace else than mastodon.social.
It takes new Mastodon users even longer to discover that there's a Fediverse beyond Mastodon. From my experience, that's often three to six months. There are three major ways for Mastodon users to find that out.
One, you stumble upon a post that mentions Fediverse projects that aren't Mastodon, and that mentions that they're Fediverse projects and connected to Mastodon.
Two, you post something that implies or out-right claims that the Fediverse is only Mastodon, and someone comes and tells you otherwise in the comments.
Three, you discover weird-looking posts in your timeline that can't possibly come from Mastodon with way over 500 characters, strange-looking mentions, strange-looking hashtags etc. If you inquire whoever wrote that post about it, they'll tell you they aren't on Mastodon, but on an instance of another project which is nonetheless connected to Mastodon.
It'll be very similar on Threads, but on a much greater scale with a much bigger timeframe. I guess many Threads users may spend years without even encountering a post from outside. Most will spend many months. And I'm not talking about actually noticing that the post in question did not originate on Threads.
Unless Threads will actually slam account IDs with non-Threads domains on them into its users' faces, I think one element that Threads users will notice will be hashtags which Threads doesn't have, but which I don't expect Threads to strip out entirely like Mastodon strips out any and all text formatting. Thread user: "Hey dumbass, this ain't Twitter, Threads doesn't have hashtags!" External user: "But Mastodon has them. I'm on Mastodon and not on Threads." Thread user: "What's Mastodon, and WTF are you doing on my timeline then?!" External user: "[Fediverse explanation noises]" And even this will only lead to one more Threads user knowing about the rest of the Fediverse. Out of hundreds of millions.
The difference between mastodon.social and Threads is that new arrivals on mastodon.social are left uninformed about what Mastodon is and how it works to make on-boarding easier than if they were educated about decentralisation and instances and other Fediverse projects and then left to choose the project and the instance themselves. Threads users, on the other hand, are left believing that, beyond being a centralised silo, Threads is a walled garden with no connections to the outside world whatsoever. To be fair, it is one right now and will remain one for the foreseeable future. mastodon.social doesn't try to pretend to be a walled garden. And Mastodon itself only does so a little by hardly, if ever, acknowledging the rest of the Fediverse.
If Threads users should actually set out to discover the rest of the Fediverse and make connections to there, the impression they get from the Fediverse won't be too positive. That's because two out of three Fediverse instances will be inaccessible to them due to having blocked Threads altogether. From the point-of-view of a Threads user who has always put full trust and faith into all Facebook/Meta products and never used anything decentralised before, believing that even e-mail is a Microsoft or Google or Yahoo! product, the Fediverse will appear as nothing but a bunch of entitled arseholes.
It certainly won't help that the [Fediverse explanation noises] won't include, "This is all just hackish amateur stuff rather than professional corporate software development, and we're lightyears from your features, but it does its job." Instead, users from other Fediverse projects will mention ("brag about") the features that these other Fediverse projects have that Threads lacks. Hashtags, for example. Let me show you them.
It gets even worse if someone on Threads happens upon someone on something else than Mastodon. In comparison with Akkoma, Threads pales more. In comparison with what's-still-but-not-for-much-longer-called-CalcKey, it pales even more. And now imagine what'd happen if someone on Threads met someone on Hubzilla. Or /kbin. "Whaddaya mean, you're talkin' to me from a Reddit clone?! How's that even possible?"
Okay, so those Fediverse people aren't just entitled, they're also snooty braggarts who claim that their stuff that was developed with a budget of zero is allegedly better than Threads that was developed with a several-billion-dollar budget.
Let's just say that even if the Threads users discovered the Fediverse beyond Threads by-and-by, they wouldn't be too keen on connecting to what's left of it that they can actually connect to. The biggest chances will be if it'll be possible on Threads to share Follow Friday posts from Mastodon in such a way that it isn't too obvious that they come from Mastodon. Since Mastodon mentions don't include domains, they might pretty well pass for mentioning Threads users, and the Threads community will believe that Follow Friday was invented on Threads. Also, out-right celebrities on George Takei's level of fame if they reside on instances that don't block Threads. But otherwise, no chance.
Tomorrow during #EIT CCI #Barcelona Waag director Marleen Stikker joins the roundtable discussion on the case of innovation for social purposes by the creative industry. She will be joined by our partners such as Ars Electronica and artist collective Territorial Agency. Looking forward! #STARTSEU