Submitted 2 months ago by Fitik@fedia.io to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/28/threads-deepens-its-ties-to-the-open-social-web-aka-the-fediverse/
Meta announced that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own. In addition, posts that originated through the Threads API, like those created via third-party apps and scheduling services, will now be syndicated to the fediverse.
Boo. Go away Zuck and take your shitty vertical videos with you.
We used to say that people who made vertical videos had Vertical Video Syndrome. It was a terrible time.
I am so glad my instance is defederated
same
Amen
Currently, Threads users can like the replies from other servers, but they can’t yet reply to them, as the feature is still in beta and under development.
Image It took around a year for a solo dev (and a couple contributors) to develop a fully federated platform. Why is it taking on of the largest companies on the planet this long to make such tiny changes that are useless anyway.
And why are they releasing it like this instead of releasing everything at once?
Because every step of the way, they need a flock of MBAs to figure out the answer to the question “How do we make money off of this?”
It is a different level of scale, mastodon has about 1 million users spread over a bunch of instances. Threads has over 200 million users on one instance. also due to the network nature of social media the amount of connections and messages sent through those connections can scale exponentially with the amount of users.
I’m guessing because they don’t want it to.
I don’t want to see commercial content. I also don’t want others to see it because it will pollute the culture of the Fediverse.
it will help it grow, maybe poisoning it in the process, but grow none the less.
Pretty much like everything else corporations do then!
I don’t think i’ve ever seen a Threads message in any of my Lemmy / Mastodon feeds. Perhaps I’m not mixing in the right circles?
Your instance likely defederated threads
Threads posts wouldn’t really appear on lemmy unless they deliberately format the post to tag a community. And they wouldn’t be able to see replies either.
Fediverse is not super far from original internet idea with one exception of convenient block feature. Let’s hope that’s enough to prevent the sequel.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 months ago
You should just join an instance that blocks threads.net. Fortunately there are many of such instances. Your current instance doesn’t seem to defederate any other instance, which is kind of suspect on its own.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 months ago
SDF is a very hands-off instance. I’ve seen many trolls in bad actors on there. It also has some management issues since it can go down for long periods of time.
The only reason I have an account there and the only reason I would encourage anyone to use it is because it’s run by the SDF foundation and it will probably be around forever. Well at least as long SDF itself.
Auster@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Blocking everyone and every community from Facebook’s new parasite social media could be good, me thinks.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 months ago
Check fedipact.online for instances that have defederated threads. Good luck! :)
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fedipact needs much more exposure. It’s important to spread this message both because of Facebook’s evil practices, but also that they favor hostile users and have atrocious moderation letting a lot of nasty shit slide that shouldn’t.