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Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub (daringfireball.net)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Adam Mosseri:

Second, threads posted by me and a few members of the Threads team will be available on other fediverse platforms like Mastodon starting this week. This test is a small but meaningful step towards making Threads interoperable with other apps using ActivityPub — we’re committed to doing this so that people can find community and engage with the content most relevant to them, no matter what app they use.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I think this will beneficial for the fediverse overall. Thereads will eventually have to advertise. At which point hopefully other Platforms on the fediverse will become more attractive to some threads users.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Absolutely not, federating with Threads is the first step in the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish process that businesses have used in the past to kill things like the fediverse. This is a win for businesses that want to see the fediverse dead and buried

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The wrong kind of users though.. The people on Facebook likely to use Threads, are the ones who I'd hate to federate with. Discussions would quickly change to low effort karma grabs and inside jokes.

You're also likely to get a lot more people doing stealth/viral marketing, more bots, etc

That's why I use Beehaw honestly.. It actually feels like I'm talking to people

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Exactly! Look at how well XMPP/Jabber is doing after FB and Google embraced it.