Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt’s funny how “mastodon is too complicated” stops when the instance they pick is Threads.
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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.
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.
It also doesn’t work with a VPN.
I think it might depend on what VPN you use, I was able to use it from VPNs and Tor (Tor is kind of slow though). On Tor though it very much struggled to load images and the requests would take longer.
sour@kbin.social 1 year ago
threads only has one instance
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But now it’s one of hundreds you could pick to participate in ActivityPub/Mastodon.
sour@kbin.social 1 year ago
you don’t need to pick instance to join threads
strahlemann@feddit.de 1 year ago
you don’t need pick instance step to join mastodon.social