Threads Expands Fediverse Beta, Letting Users See Replies (and Likes) on Other Fediverse Sites like Mastodon (theverge.com) 16
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from the Verge:
Threads will now let people like and see replies to their Threads posts that appear on other federated social media platforms, the company announced on Tuesday.
Previously, if you made a post on Threads that was syndicated to another platform like Mastodon, you wouldn't be able to see responses to that post while still inside Threads. That meant you'd have to bounce back and forth between the platforms to stay up-to-date on replies... [I]n a screenshot, Meta notes that you can't reply to replies "yet," so it sounds like that feature will arrive in the future.
"Threads is Meta's first app built to be compatible with the fediverse..." according to a Meta blog post. "Our vision is that people using other fediverse-compatible servers will be able to follow and interact with people on Threads without having a Threads profile, and vice versa, connecting communities..." [If you turn on "sharing"...] "Developers can build new types of features and user experiences that can easily plug into other open social networks, accelerating the pace of innovation and experimentation."
And this week Instagram/Threads top executive Adam Mosseri posted that Threads is "also expanding the availability of the fediverse beta experience to more than 100 countries, and hope to roll it out everywhere soon."
Previously, if you made a post on Threads that was syndicated to another platform like Mastodon, you wouldn't be able to see responses to that post while still inside Threads. That meant you'd have to bounce back and forth between the platforms to stay up-to-date on replies... [I]n a screenshot, Meta notes that you can't reply to replies "yet," so it sounds like that feature will arrive in the future.
"Threads is Meta's first app built to be compatible with the fediverse..." according to a Meta blog post. "Our vision is that people using other fediverse-compatible servers will be able to follow and interact with people on Threads without having a Threads profile, and vice versa, connecting communities..." [If you turn on "sharing"...] "Developers can build new types of features and user experiences that can easily plug into other open social networks, accelerating the pace of innovation and experimentation."
And this week Instagram/Threads top executive Adam Mosseri posted that Threads is "also expanding the availability of the fediverse beta experience to more than 100 countries, and hope to roll it out everywhere soon."
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (Score:3)
We are currently on Step 1.
We my never get to Step 3, but everyone should make sure they understand what the plan really is here.
Not Even at Step 1 (Score:2)
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Threads are blocking more than they're federating, including Mastodon.
https://www.threads.net/modera... [threads.net]
Not all, just the following mastodon servers:
mastodon.fuckoff.top
mastodon.sexypokemon.xyz
mastodon-ero.xyz
mastodon.hr
The last one sounds like it was blocked for being misconfigured or something, the first two are obvious blocks if you're looking to make a family friendly social network, and I actually have no problem with that. (No idea on the 3rd but I suspect it's some kink I'm unfamiliar with).
The trouble with "free speech" as practised by Xitter is that free speech is really only usable by a subset of us
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Not all, just the following mastodon servers:
mastodon.fuckoff.top
mastodon.sexypokemon.xyz
mastodon-ero.xyz
mastodon.hr
Huh?? There's 671 servers on their blocklist right now.
Yes, but the claim was they were blocking "Mastodon" implying the whole network was blocked. There weren't, there were blocking 4 individual Mastodon servers, seemingly with good cause (according to their network).
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I think most people just don't want their timeline full of that stuff. Musk seems to think that Twitter is better now but personally I'd prefer it without the conditions of "rapen*ggers1488" in my feed.
https://twitter.com/stargirlur... [twitter.com]
I'm pretty resilient, after all I'm on Slashdot, but that's not why I'm on Twitter.
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I think most people just don't want their timeline full of that stuff. Musk seems to think that Twitter is better now but personally I'd prefer it without the conditions of "rapen*ggers1488" in my feed.
https://twitter.com/stargirlur... [twitter.com]
I'm pretty resilient, after all I'm on Slashdot, but that's not why I'm on Twitter.
Twitter was a barely contained cesspit before Musk came along and that was with the previous management working hard to make sure people like "rapen*ggers1488" weren't in peoples feed. Since Musk took over, he hasn't just uncontained the cesspit, he's started actively pumping even more shit in.
/. at least has some redeeming qualities. If we sit here long enough we may even think of one.
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mastodon.hr
I may end up regretting this question but what is the significance of .hr?
I've read it a few times recently and the context is definitely not "human relations"... which is a term I still consider a derogatory however.
xmpp lesson: use mastodon. (Score:1)
The chats of Facebook and Google were interoperable with other xmpp servers, at their infancy. They may even still use it but not in interoperable way.
Why using Threads instead of using mastodon ? Nothing to gain to use Threads to send data to Mastodon. Just send the message on Mastodon. Not twice the work (the same message) but twice the long term safety .
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Meta Fediverse What happened to their Multiverse? (Score:2)