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Threads Opens Beta To 'Fediverse Sharing' (theverge.com) 20

Posted by BeauHD from the making-progress dept.
In a Threads post today, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Twitter rival is rolling out a beta of its fediverse integration in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. With the feature enabled, Threads users will be able to cross-post and view likes from other federated platforms, like Mastodon. The Verge reports: Threads previewed its fediverse integration earlier this week during the FediForum. As outlined on its support page, Meta says that you must have a public account to turn on fediverse sharing, which will allow users on other servers to "search for and follow your profile, view your posts, interact with your content, and share your content to anyone on or off their server."

There are still a few limitations, though. The beta currently doesn't let users view replies and follows from the fediverse, for example. Meta also can't promise that when you delete a federated post on Threads, it will also get deleted on the other platforms it was shared on.
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  • Weird (Score:3)

    by Baloo Uriza ( 1582831 ) <baloo@ursamundi.org> on Thursday March 21, 2024 @05:49PM (#64334909) Homepage Journal
    What a weird and stupid way of joining the fediverse, as opposed to just joining the fediverse.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by kiore ( 734594 )

      Yes, as a user of both, I'm trying to think what reading Mastodon in Threads gives you that reading Mastodon natively doesn't.

      On the other hand It might make Threads seem less barren for a short while until major Mastodon instances block Threads.

      • That block was preemptive on a lot of instances. I know my admin proactively blocked them as soon as we knew what domain they would be federating from.

      • Think of the flip side. The worst part of the major platforms is the advertising and suggested content. Masto user could follow a person on Threads without needing to also be on Threads, which means you get the content you want but not the advertising.

        If people on Threads figure this out, could actually encourage them to switch. Biggest issue in moving to masto now is finding people to follow (especially since Twitter broke all the "find accounts from people I know" migration helper tools that were briefly

    • Re:Weird (Score:4, Insightful)

      by nashv ( 1479253 ) on Thursday March 21, 2024 @07:21PM (#64335069) Homepage

      Isn't it obvious? At the moment, Threads lacks meaningful content and an established user base like X/Twitter.

      Mastodon made some in-roads in some places and seems to be slowly growing. By integrating with the Fediverse, Threads gains access to all that content. On the other hand, Threads maintains a user base through its Instagram/Facebook integration.

      If at some point in the future, Threads gains enough traction and the percentage of users using the Threads app and server dwarfs other servers in the Fediverse, the federating can simply be stopped.

    • What a weird and stupid way of joining the fediverse, as opposed to just joining the fediverse.

      There's nothing weird about it. This is a Beta, no one has joined anything yet. You do remember "Beta testing" right? I know that modern software development doesn't align with the concept and that you agile waterfall the MVP right to enshittification, but you should be *praising* the fact that some companies still do small scale Beta tests. Your UID is low enough to know what the term means.

    • That's okay, most fedi instances have already blocked them. The flagship Mastodon instance is the only one that's being so welcoming to Zuck.
      • That's not true. A few reactionaries hot on the defederate button did that, most instances moderate at more of a per-user basis and use silence over suspend on all but the internet sewer. As awful as Meta is, it's widely understood that the curb cut effect benefits the fediverse more than Meta on this one.
  • Well, good look finding a node that does not have them blacklisted. Maybe there's a few in china and russia, who knows.

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