Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This sounds like it’s NOT going to increase mastodon and pixelfed’s reach

  it doesn’t sound like you’ll be able to post from Mastodon to Threads

  It looks like they’re only pushing right now, they’re not allowing Threads users to pull content in from the broader fediverse. Threads content gets exposure on Mastodon, but not the other way around.

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  • InfiniWheel@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tbf, that’s just in regards to the current tests. It could change later on.

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  • Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So it seems like they’re just doing it to push their posts onto instances almost as advertisment. Not a great practice, seems very spammy to me.

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  • corbin@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because the integration isn’t finished yet.

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  • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah, that’s unfortunate.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s funny how “mastodon is too complicated” stops when the instance they pick is Threads.

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  • sour@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    threads only has one instance

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But now it’s one of hundreds you could pick to participate in ActivityPub/Mastodon.

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      • sour@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        you don’t need to pick instance to join threads

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  • 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People who say that are generally talking about the signup where you have to pick an instance. And then there's the worry over which other servers yours federates with. If you isolate your attention to a single instance, then all those worries go away.

    The same already happens on the fediverse in regards to mastodon itself. A lot of people discuss the fediverse almost wholly in terms of mastodon.

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    • Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also mastodon.social the flagship instance really kind of sucks. It has strict rate limiting and poor moderation (gotten lots of follows and follow requests from gross people on there. Also means it’ll usually be Limited by other servers or blocked by their users.

      So doesn’t really help with the idea that all of Mastodon isn’t like that.

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      • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It also doesn’t work with a VPN.

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• sour@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  more content isn’t better content

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  • MudMan@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And that's why all social media is bad.

    Look, open socials can either replace closed socials or be a niche little fun exclusive club for techheads exclusively focused on Star Trek and Linux and how open socials should replace closed socials. You can't have both.

    So if the conclusion here is that popular social media sucks... yeah, you're right. Because all social media sucks.

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  • NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t agree at all here. If someone on threads has posts you like, you can follow them. If not, you won’t see any posts from threads on your feed.

    Your feed will either be the same as before, or better than before.

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    • sour@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      will i see by default

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      • NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        See what? Posts from threads? Depends on your instance and how you browse.

        Lemmy has no microblogging features so you won’t be seeing any (unless they’re specifically posting to Lemmy)

        Kbin I’m not too sure since there are microblogging features but idk how they work.

        Mastodon; you will see posts from threads users if you follow them, or if someone you follow boosts a post from them.
        If you browse by the explore/posts tab, you might see some threads posts. Also from the ‘All’/federated tab.
        You’ll be able to block threads for your account, or choose an instance that’s defederated.

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  • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, not always, but there are people I know I like and respect and used to follow on Twitter that are on threads and I’m not.

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    • sour@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      will they go to mastodon

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      • Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If enough people that they want to follow give them the “mastodon.social treatment” as I’m calling it (which basically means rejecting them based on being on an instance with a bad reputation) they might, they also might not. I know plenty of people who choose to stay on Mastodon.social even though they’re limited by lots of servers and users for spam. Same would probably happen with threads. Though I imagine there will be significantly more animosity towards threads than mastodon.social because threads is not just a bot infested mastodon instance, it’s run by Facebook.

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