Truth Social is a Mastodon fork.
Threads is just Instagram with text posts and a different representation of replies.
Comment on Threads has hashtags now
sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 year ago
So they forked mastodon and gutted the features and are now reimplementing them in a way that’s fundamentally incompatible with upstream? Sounds a lot like something Silicon Valley would do.
Truth Social is a Mastodon fork.
Threads is just Instagram with text posts and a different representation of replies.
Google and XMPP history is repeating.
Zak@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Threads does not appear to be a fork of Mastodon or anything else.
It also doesn’t federate yet and I’m not convinced it’s actually going to, so I think posts about it might be off-topic for a community about the Fediverse.
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 year ago
I also think the federation promise was just all smoke and mirrors to let the European Union allow them to publish the app.
I don’t think we will ever see proper federation on Threads, even though I’d surely like it.
Zak@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think it was probably as much to compete with Bluesky, which also says it will have federation (with its own protocol) Soon^tm^ as anything.
If Bluesky actually starts federating, I think there’s a good chance Threads will.
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 year ago
Threads, however, has explicitly promised Mastodon integration, so it won’t use a proprietary protocol.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
really love bluesky i just hold they either do both protocols or make an activitypub bridge. i think that all the alternative networks working together is the best way to prevent post twitter special network splintering
clgoh@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Zuckerberg just posted this on Threads. Federation seems to be coming relatively soon.
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 year ago
It’s to good to be true, there’s going to be a trick for sure
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For the EU the abilities to read posts without an account and delete a Threads account independently of the IG one was enough. Federation had nothing to do with it. Threads would not be able to launch without federation, had this been a mandate.
SamXavia@kbin.run 1 year ago
As they haven't said they aren't coming to the Fediverse and if anything say they are still looking to Federate it's still on-topic as of the moment but yes it feels like they are kicking the can down the road or have lost it completely and just don't want to tell anyone yet.