Meta rolls out a beta of Threads' fediverse integration in the US, Canada, and Japan, letting users cross-post and view likes from federated tools like Mastodon
tbh, same. ✨ The big idea: Threads is helping people find community, no matter which platform they use. … Mastodon: Alex Standiford / @alexstandiford@fosstodon.org : Looks like Meta kept good on its promise, and has started opening Threads to the fediverse. Looks like it's opt-in. Clever. Catch up, Twitter! — https://engineering.fb.com/... #Fediverse #Mastodon #TwitterToMastodon Andrew Melder / @andrew@melder.social : Interestingly they seemed to have enabled it more widely than I thought they would so far (U.S, Canada and Japan users). — This will be welcome by the Mastodon community with open arms though 😜 — https://www.theverge.com/... #Threads #Fediverse #Mastodon #Threadiverse @thomas@metalhead.club : They certainly have a sense of humor 🤣 — https://engineering.fb.com/... But yeah. Welcome anyway. 👋 — #meta #activityPub #fediverse — [image] Pat Murray / @_patmurray@mastodon.social : I am hopeful the Threads federating will go well and ultimately be good for the World Wide Web. Yes email is controlled by a handful of big players but at least it's more than one and there is *a standard*. I assume the same will happen here and that's not a bad outcome @ahmetasabanci@mastodon.social : In here replies are either celebration or people announcing they're blocking him/swearing at him. — Over on Threads, most of the replies are “what is fediverse?” — It's fun to see two completely different worlds in action at the same time. https://www.threads.net/... CartyBoston / @CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net : If you are seeing Zuckerberg's posts do an “open original page” to get a feel for the scope of what is happening. — I am not freaking out, to me this feels like the original internet, people just kind of showed up and we dealt. — Here's one: — https://www.threads.net/... Richard MacManus / @ricmac@mastodon.social : Our future boss is federating now. I didn't see it in my settings, so UK not part of it currently it seems. #Threads — [image] @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org : On the other hand, if all the public agencies on Threads can turn on Federation, that could be useful. (they are one way all the time anyway). Jesse Baer / @misc@mastodon.social : I feel like the comments here are more positive than the comments on Threads https://www.threads.net/... @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org : One way federation is like someone with a loudspeaker barging into a small room and yelling, while wearing earplugs. 🤔 #Threads #Fediverse Colin Devroe / @cdevroe@mastodon.social : Thinking out loud: I don't think I'll federate my Threads account when it becomes more generally available. I did that with Micro.blog and I regretted it. It gets confusing when a single person has multiple fediverse accounts. Especially if they're abandoned. … X: @metanewsroom : Starting today, you can share threads to the fediverse, connecting you with more people, even if they're using a different server. https://about.fb.com/... [image] @fb_engineering : Threads has joined the fediverse! Our beta experience in select countries allows users 18+ with public profiles to share posts to other ActivityPub-compliant servers. https://engineering.fb.com/... Forums: BeauHD / Slashdot : Threads Opens Beta To ‘Fediverse Sharing’
Threads Update 🔔🧵 We're rolling out a beta of our fediverse integration in a few countries, including the US. Starting today, people who are 18 or older with a public profile can opt into a test that lets you share to the fediverse. …
We're making progress integrating Threads into the fediverse and launching a beta in a few countries that lets people choose to federate their posts. If you see this and turn it on from your profile, you'll see likes from federated platforms appear on your posts here.
I really appreciate how Threads explains federation when you go to turn it on. It's admittedly a complicated thing to fully wrap your head around, but the basics are not that scary. I've always said to think about it like email. You can use Gmail, but you can talk with people …
Putting all of my federated Threads accounts into a Mastodon list. And just like that, one of the benefits of Threads supporting the Fediverse is happening in real-time. I now can view them all in one Mastodon list view TODAY, or add them to multiple lists TODAY, even while lis…
A few things I'm already noticing about how Threads federation works. • Non-Threads usernames are not yet transformed into user links. That would also mean that any non-Threads user will not be notified if mentioned (for now). • Quoted Threads posts DO get federated with a lin…
The Fediverse is like email for social media. When you hit “post” it sends it out to all relevant networks. This is called federation, hence FEDiverse. ActivityPub is the protocol behind this: email has internal protocols like SMTP you almost never have to think about. …
Is there a plan to allow for the embedding / sharing of Threads posts, @mosseri @zuck ? If you give journalists and publications the ability to embed content from here, they'll be more likely to share it, thus spreading word about the viability of @Threads and expanding it's rea…
I am hopeful the Threads federating will go well and ultimately be good for the World Wide Web. Yes email is controlled by a handful of big players but at least it's more than one and there is *a standard*. I assume the same will happen here and that's not a bad outcome
In here replies are either celebration or people announcing they're blocking him/swearing at him. — Over on Threads, most of the replies are “what is fediverse?” — It's fun to see two completely different worlds in action at the same time. https://www.threads.net/...
If you are seeing Zuckerberg's posts do an “open original page” to get a feel for the scope of what is happening. — I am not freaking out, to me this feels like the original internet, people just kind of showed up and we dealt. — Here's one: — https://www.threads.net/...
Thinking out loud: I don't think I'll federate my Threads account when it becomes more generally available. I did that with Micro.blog and I regretted it. It gets confusing when a single person has multiple fediverse accounts. Especially if they're abandoned. …
Starting today, you can share threads to the fediverse, connecting you with more people, even if they're using a different server. https://about.fb.com/... [image]
Threads has joined the fediverse! Our beta experience in select countries allows users 18+ with public profiles to share posts to other ActivityPub-compliant servers. https://engineering.fb.com/...