Fediverse @lemmy.world Fitik @fedia.io 3 days ago

Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the 'fediverse' | TechCrunch

Meta announced Wednesday that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own.

Meta announced that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own. In addition, posts that originated through the Threads API, like those created via third-party apps and scheduling services, will now be syndicated to the fediverse.

Fediverse @lemmy.ml xelar @lemmy.ml 2 days ago

Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’

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Fediverse @lemmy.zip BrikoX @lemmy.zip 3 days ago

Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the 'fediverse'

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Fediverse is not super far from original internet idea with the exception of convenient block feature. Let’s hope that’s enough to prevent the sequel.
I don’t like this rebranding to “open social web” like it was made for them.
- Something that is open and free was, by definition, made for everyone. Even the robber barons you hate.
I don't want to see commercial content. I also don't want others to see it because it will pollute the culture of the Fediverse.
- it will help it grow, maybe poisoning it in the process, but grow none the less.
  
  Pretty much like everything else corporations do then!
Great.
I joined the Fediverse to escape Facebook's toxic interpretation of communities, so Facebook is coming to the Fediverse instead.
Just great...
- Check https://fedipact.online for instances that have defederated threads. Good luck! :)
  
  Fedipact needs much more exposure. It's important to spread this message both because of Facebook's evil practices, but also that they favor hostile users and have atrocious moderation letting a lot of nasty shit slide that shouldn't.
- You should just join an instance that blocks threads.net. Fortunately there are many of such instances. Your current instance doesn't seem to defederate any other instance, which is kind of suspect on its own.
  
  SDF is a very hands-off instance. I've seen many trolls in bad actors on there. It also has some management issues since it can go down for long periods of time.
  
  The only reason I have an account there and the only reason I would encourage anyone to use it is because it's run by the SDF foundation and it will probably be around forever. Well at least as long SDF itself.
- Blocking everyone and every community you see from Facebook's new parasite social media could be good, me thinks.
  
  @Auster@lemm.ee You can just use an instance that is defederated from them, that's the beauty of the Fediverse
  
  According to https://lemm.ee/instances your instance already blocks them for example
  
  @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
  
  How can we know?
Boo. Go away Zuck and take your shitty vertical videos with you.
- We used to say that people who made vertical videos had Vertical Video Syndrome. It was a terrible time.
I don't think i've ever seen a Threads message in any of my Lemmy / Mastodon feeds. Perhaps I'm not mixing in the right circles?
- Your instance likely defederated threads
- Threads posts wouldn't really appear on lemmy unless they deliberately format the post to tag a community. And they wouldn't be able to see replies either.
I am so glad my instance is defederated
- same
- Amen
Note: You can't interact with Threads accounts from Lemmy, but you can interact with Threads accounts from MBin (and maybe PieFed), except if your instance is defederated from them obviously

There's POTUS account for example @potus@threads.net
- Why would I want to interact with people on threads? I’m here for the Lemmy community.
- Why not Lemmy?
  
  Lemmy doesn't implement Mastodon (which is the fediverse version of Twitter), only their own Lemmy one (Reddit clone). Kbin and Mbin implement both, as does pyfedi/piefed.
  
  Because right now the Threads federation is still pretty one sided, the Fediverse users can reply to the Threads posts, but the Threads users can't see the Fediverse posts, only replies
  
  And with how Lemmy works, you can't reply to the microblogging accounts, you can't reply to Mastodon's posts neither, so you can't get your replies federated
  
  lemmy devs just havent put in the effort, but its clear they are on that path.
- Yep, pyfedi supports Mastodon integration just like mbin.
  
  Not quite as good as Mbin. For example you can't follow someone on mastodon from PieFed. They can follow you, though.
- Do regular Mastodon instances and clients play nicely with Threads?
  
  I’ve been on Mastodon for a while and never seen a Threads user.
  
  On paper it should play well, it appeared as Mastodon would on my Mbin instance. A lot of Mastodon instances have preemptively defederated from Threads though, so you need to shop around.
  
  Yea, they play fine, I use Misskey fork as my main instance, and it even supports quotes
  
  Maybe your instance have defederated from them? Also the Fediverse sharing is opt-in in Threads, so like 95% or more Threads users haven't turned it on, cause they have no idea it exists
  
  meta has not made using threads very easy for its users. only the technical or high visibility accounts seem to have cared to jump through the necessary hoops.
  
  Do regular Mastodon instances and clients play nicely with Threads?
  
  You can't connect to Threads using a Mastodon client but you can follow select Threads accounts from the Mastodon instance your client is connected to. Threads is still in what is basically a public beta. That's why there are currently no ads there either (but they were announced recently).
Currently, Threads users can like the replies from other servers, but they can’t yet reply to them, as the feature is still in beta and under development.
- It took around a year for a solo dev (and a couple contributors) to develop a fully federated platform. Why is it taking one of the largest companies on the planet this long to make such tiny changes that are useless anyway.
  
  And why are they releasing it like this instead of releasing everything at once?
  
  Because every step of the way, they need a flock of MBAs to figure out the answer to the question "How do we make money off of this?"
  
  It is a different level of scale, mastodon has about 1 million users spread over a bunch of instances. Threads has over 200 million users on one instance. also due to the network nature of social media the amount of connections and messages sent through those connections can scale exponentially with the amount of users.
  
  I'm guessing because they don't want it to.

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