Mosseri: "Give us time. We're starting with the ability to follow threads users from activitypub clients, but we will get to the ability to follow accounts from activitypub servers on threads as well”
threads
Hard to overstate how important this news is. #Threads
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000120/threads-meta-activitypub-test-mastodon
cc: @fediversenews
Meanwhile, on Mastodon.....
#facebookdown #Facebook #Threads #Instagram #Twitter #Mastodon
体验了市面大部分替代 X 的去中心化平台:
mastodon 体验还行,比较依赖实例站长的维护,关站账号会没,目前内容大多是碎碎念的树洞文。
bluesky 体验最接近 twitter,但中文的内容较少,优势是 AT 可以无缝迁移账号,且可绑定自己的域名挺酷的。
nostr 太过极客,添加个好友还需要一串公钥(可能我不会),客户端不够流畅。
threads 感觉小扎要把所有的社交类型都要涉及遍了,已有 ins 不想在用 fb 系产品了,目前注销了。
X 中心化,内容太丰富,停不下来。
There goes the neighbourhood.
#threads #meta #facebook #fediverse #mastodon #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming
Yesterday morning I was flipping through my Mastodon timeline via Flipboard and I saw a post from @gtconway3.
@tchambers had boosted George's post using whatever app Tim likes to use to these days (I suspect @phanpy though it could just as easily have been the native Mastodon app, @mammoth, @ivory, or @IceCubesApp)
I tapped on George's profile and saw he was posting from #Threads. I tapped the follow button and now I see his latest posts in Mastodon and Flipboard.
There's a whole new array of apps, people and posts in the fediverse and it all just works. It's wonderful.
#Fediverse FTW.
The reason why #Threads and #Mastodon are incompatible is that Mastodon is a community, and Threads is a market. That's it.
It's not big Fed vs small Fedi. It's not platforms vs protocols.
It's communities vs markets.
Communities are supportive and markets are extractive. Communities answer to those who must live with decisions made. Markets answer to money.
And wouldn't you know it, those contrasting forces influence people's behaviors, goals, and motivations for engaging with others.
Dear @Gargron,
A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.social’s second server rule:
“2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…
Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.”
Can you please defederate from this server to protect the trans people on mastodon.social?
Thank you.
PS. It’s run by these guys: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
#mastodonSocial #fediblock #threads #meta #mastodon #transphobia
Hypothetically speaking, if #Trump wins the next presidential elections, would his team use #Threads and so the #fediverse to make his political tweets but on the fediverse?
how long until threads threatens to or actually does start blocking mastodon.social for allowing nudity?
would dot social bend the knee in that scenario and change their policy? probably
Welcome to the neighborhood, President Biden @potus
Wow, Taylor Swift joined Threads and has 9M+ followers already!
Her account has not enabled fediverse sharing yet, but if/when they do, I'm eager to see how the fediverse handles it.
We've got new Dot Social podcast episodes coming with fediverse leaders, starting with @mike's conversation with Meta's @rklambo and @pcottle, two key people building #Threads. That one releases on Monday, followed by episodes with @snarfed.org and @molly0xfff. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Here's more info:
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-social-new-episodes/
#DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #Flipboard #Federation #MastodonMigration #ActivityPub #Meta #Threads #MetaThreads #BridgyFed #Web3
😂 That was odd! When I mentioned @darnell@flipboard.com on my #WordPress blog, it pinged my #Flipboard account on my iPhone even though #ActivityPub is not yet activated (I received a push notification, which later revealed nothing 😆).
If it pings again via #Mastodon, I might do various tests upon other #Fediverse accounts (like #Misskey & #Threads).
Threads is the largest player so far to adopt #ActivityPub, and as @mike says, “The implications are huge.”
Why is Threads doing this? How is the team working with the community? How are they thinking about moderation, monetization and privacy in these early days and going forward?
In the newest episode of @dot_social, Mike digs in with @rklambo, Director of Product Management, and @pcottle, Software Engineer. Check it out in the fediverse on PeerTube or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. More details here:
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/threads-dot-social/
#DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #Federation #MastodonMigration #Threads #Meta #ActivityPub #Flipboard
In order for the open social web to happen at scale, lots of companies and apps, big and small, need to adopt #ActivityPub. Threads is the largest player so far to do this and the implications are huge.
Why is #Threads doing this? Is federation just another feature or is it foundational to their entire experience? How is the Threads team thinking about moderation, monetization and privacy in these early days and going forward?
I asked @rklambo and @pcottle, two thoughtful and genuine leaders on the Threads team who joined me on the latest episode of #DotSocial. Check it out on our #PeerTube instance or wherever you get your podcasts.
Yay! My #Flipboard account is federating: @darnell
Like #Threads & #Ghost, Flipboard is beta testing #ActivityPub on its main site.
I believe Flipboard will prove to be a counterweight to Threads and a prime location for news & pundits (as #Meta does not really desire the latter two on their platforms).
本来打算在threads上碎碎念,但是上面经常能看到大陆人和台湾人吵架的帖子,双方都有上来就扣帽子的,就是纯粹的吵架。还有一些是无意义的水贴,几乎每天都会刷到“apple music,YouTube music,spotify”用哪一个听歌的贴,真的看腻了。和我想象中的有挺大差距的。
Just a note saying how my #Fediverse experience has been made immeasurably richer for being able to take in & engage w/ carefully curated #Threads users, #BlueSky bridged users, #WordPress ActivityPub enabled blogs, #Flipboard Federated accounts, bridged #Podcast episodes, #PixelFed photos, & Peertube videos. All from one Mastodon account.
I'm grateful for the moderation tools to mute, block and curate all of this, and the Mastodon lists to make them all digestable and not just info overload.
#Threads, on the other hand, is a different story, the API is quite limited and requires business verification to serve users not yourself.
Code is done but probably will not be enabled given how complex the biz review process is.
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Gute Neuigkeiten! Unser Universum hat sich gerade vergrößert — jetzt kannst du Profilen von @Mastodon, @threads und anderen föderierten sozialen Netzwerken auf Flipboard folgen und mit ihnen interagieren.
Lade die Flipboard-App herunter und folge @janboehm, @afelia, @Gargron und mehr. Entdecke Beiträge aus dem Fediverse neben den Inhalten deiner liebsten Publisher.
Hier erfährst du mehr darüber, wie das Ganze funktioniert: https://de-de.about.flipboard.com/flipboard-oeffnet-sich-weiter-jetzt-kannst-du-allen-im-fediverse-folgen/
Und wie immer freuen wir uns über eure Fragen und Feedback!
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Flipboard #SocialMedia #Digital #Tech #Threads #Technologie
@Flipboard
Recently #ElonMusk smearmongered his daughter (his daughter is #trans, she disowned him and changed her last name)
So Vivian decided to break the silence on #Threads:
https://www.threads.net/@vivllainous/post/C91xDGJSUX_
#Musk's original crap on #Twitter (warning, #deadnaming):
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1815519696424161361
"in a ketamine-fueled haze, he's desperate for attention and validation from an army of degenerate red-pilled incels and pick-mes who are quick to give it to him. Go touch some fucking grass"
DAMN!😆
Flipboard CEO @mike will be joining the @threads AMA about the fediverse on Monday, along with Block Party founder Tracy Chou. Get ready to ask away — no question is too basic or complex.
#Fediverse #Federation #Threads #ActivityPub #MikeMcCue #TracyChou #AMA
The latest on Twitter / X
It appears that many people outside of the UK have little idea what has been taking place over the past week here and Elon Musk's role in it.
Here's a thread explaining a bit more and why so many people in the UK are leaving X 🧵 👇
#X #Twitter #UKRiots #massmigration #socialmedia #mastodon #Threads #Bluesky
Good news! Our universe just got bigger — now you can follow and interact with profiles from @Mastodon, @threads and other federated social services on Flipboard.
Download the Flipboard app to follow @georgetakei, @taylorlorenz, @potus and more. See posts from the fediverse alongside content from your favorite publishers.
Read more about how it all works: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/follow-anyone-in-the-fediverse/
And as always, we welcome questions and feedback!
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Flipboard #SocialMedia #Tech #Technology #Threads