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Threads' roadmap for integrations with the fediverse, aka the network of decentralized apps that includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and others, has been
    • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      11 months ago

      No, this is the good kind of federation because I can post on Mastodon and my normie friends can see it.

      The write-only federation they’re doing now is bad because it pushes Mastodon users to join Threads.

  • Reality Suit@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Facebook can fuck themselves. Fuck you Zuckerberg; traitor and threat to democracy. The same Mark Zuckerberg who started a platform that gave racists and pedophile a safe haven.

    • KptnAutismus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      11 months ago

      also a breeding ground for misinformation. this company should’ve been shut down long ago.

    • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      I think the entire point was actually that no single party can unilaterally make that decision. People who want to interact with Meta can, and those who don’t can simply not.

      If you don’t wanna deal with them, be on a server that doesn’t federate with them.

  • TheEntity@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Now let’s see whether Mastodon users will allow Threads users to follow the Mastodon users.

          • ZILtoid1991@kbin.social
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            11 months ago

            I was so heartbroken once I saw the Mastodon handle of Jack Saint (leftist youtuber), only to the last post of his being “I’m moving to BlueSky”. I’m also asked WhiteLeaf (worker coop behind leftist streamers’s stuff) if they thought on starting their own Mastodon or other instance.

    • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Their timeline is gradual ActivityPub implementation over the next year.

      Mosseri says the updates will roll out “in stages,” and he recognizes that the “better part of a year” timeline is a long one. “That’s a lot longer than I, or anybody on the team, wants, but it’s the reality given all the other work we need to be balance,” he says.

    • zarkanianEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Mastodon doesn’t have a choice. ActivityPub is an open protocol. They can choose to defederate with Threads, but that’s done at the individual server level.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    They can just do it right now… Quit there’s and migrate over to Mastodon or Lemmy. Ether which is fine.

  • rbits@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    A year? You’ll put your content on Mastodon but won’t let us communicate properly for a year? Why? You shouldn’t have released the first part yet, federation for Threads obviously isn’t ready.

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      federation for Threads obviously isn’t ready

      Um. Sure - isn’t that what they’re saying?

      Threads has clearly been launched to capitalise on Elon Musk’s crazy behaviour - they would have waited normally but there’s a big opportunity to grow right now.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Threads’ roadmap for integrations with the fediverse, aka the network of decentralized apps that includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and others, has been revealed.

    A new blog post by Tom Coates, the co-founder of an older decentralized app called Planetary, details the events of a December meeting at Meta’s offices where the Threads team had reached out to members of the fediverse community to get feedback about the Instagram-led project to take on X with a decentralized app that will eventually interoperate with others in the fediverse by way of the ActivityPub protocol.

    Meta did, in fact, start testing ActivityPub integration in December, allowing Threads posts to appear on Mastodon.

    In addition, this rule would potentially come into play when a user banned from Meta’s platform moved their content to another Mastodon server.

    Coates suggested various reasons why Meta may be pursuing this — perhaps to thwart coming regulation or to take over Twitter/X’s place in the zeitgeist as new owner Elon Musk turns it into an everyday app, potentially diluting its value as a fast-breaking news network and home to conversations.

    Explained Flipboard CEO Mike McCue in a conversation with TechCrunch last month, what excited him about Mastodon and ActivityPub was that it wasn’t just about where social media was heading, it was where the web itself was going.

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