I follow Biden on Threads via Mastodon. Not that I’m any huge fan of the guy, but I like to keep up with his social media presence all the same. I see value in this integration despite so many people being so aggressively opposed. The Fediverse has very few normies. I still appreciate the ability to observe their activities from a distance.
Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse
Submitted 4 months ago by ooli@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185226/meta-threads-fediverse-likes-replies
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djsaskdja@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Do you have any more info on this?
I use Mastadon pretty regularly and I feel like I somewhat know how it works, yet I read the Threads FAQ on federation and I have no clue what’s going on.
But yes, the ability to subscribe to “mainstream” accounts in Threads from mastadon servers (if they allow federation with Meta) would be a good feature.
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Going entirely off memory, but the Threads user needs to manually go into their settings and turn on federation. Then your Mastodon or Lemmy server will need to not defederate with Threads. A bunch have done so preemptively out of EEE fears.
Zak@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My (self-hosted) Mastodon server seems unable to view profiles on Threads. As far as I can tell, there’s nobody to talk to about that.
I don’t have high hopes about Meta having good intentions here, but I am eager to see platforms that would have previously been walled gardens open up to the federated model. I do think we have some work to do on the open source side to manage the potential massive increase in exposure once Threads users can follow users of other software.
Of course you can pick a server that blocks Threads if you just don’t want to deal with that.
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
What’s Threads and why do we need in in the fediverse? I don’t have Facebook and don’t use any Meta products, so I’m clueless ? Is it like closed source Mastodon or Lemmy?
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Its a microblogging platform like mastodon and no, we don’t need it in the fediverse. There’s exactly one explanation for why they would want to join.
TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Remember, if Meta can collect your data this way, any bad actor or government can as well.
sunzu@kbin.run 4 months ago
So my shitposting does has value?!
iuhsmklr8l@jlai.lu 4 months ago
Stupid move. Fediverse is dead
fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 4 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis…
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Still just on the first step, embrace.
Apparently threads didn’t support federating replies (comments) on posts until this.
Sabata11792@ani.social 4 months ago
They haven’t figured out a good way to turn the federated data into cash yet.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
it was literally in beta and the majority of the user base on threads don’t know what the fediverse is.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 months ago
Maybe. Or this will play out like Slack and IRC.
Initially, Slack integrated with IRC. Which was great! It meant I could use xchat to talk with folks, and could set up simple bots using standard IRC tools.
And then Slack killed that feature…but it absolutely didn’t kill IRC, because die hard IRC users never cared about Slack in the first place.
My prediction is it’ll be the same — what sort of people will be attracted to Threads vs a smaller “proper” instance? Probably the sort of people who would never consider a federated platform in the first place.
Just speculation and I could certainly be wrong…
niartenyaw@midwest.social 4 months ago
we just need to make sure that we don’t rely on their instance(s) too heavily so we only have minimal losses when they eventually do drop support.
prole@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
How long ago did those things happen, and what makes you think the uber wealthy capitalist owner-class hasn’t learned from their past “shortcomings”?
yildolw@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The Fediverse has 1 million active users. Threads has 130 million active users. This is not an EEE play because a 100% successful EEE play would amount to increasing the Threads userbase by less than 1%. Meta is doing this for non-EEE reasons.
One possible non-EEE reason would be to have plausible deniability for monopolistic practices. If they make a show of interoperating with irrelevant nobodies like us, they can pretend to be a nice tech company rather than a mean anti-competitive monopoly.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 months ago
Completely agree.
The Wikipedia article itself has this to say:
By that logic Lemmy/Mastodon/fediverse are already extinguished. Those of us in the fediverse are already “marginalized” wrt Twitter/Threads/Facebook/whatever.
There are very good reasons to hate Meta, but personally, I think EEE isn’t the biggest issue.
balder1991@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Possibly preventing being locked out of the EU.
misk@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 months ago
…wikipedia.org/…/Pattern_recognition_(psychology)
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Neva 4get
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
you can’t EEE an open protocol.
Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I believe google hangouts and xmpp would like to have a word with you. There was probably a universe where federated xmpp was as ubiquitous as sms, but in this universe, google federated, brought users over with cool features, and then defederated when they had all the users.
If you want another example from the same company in modern times, look at chrome and http/css/js. Google’s chokehold on the web ecosystem with chrome means that whatever they do, everyone else has to follow suit or not be compatible with the browser that something like ~75-90% of users use