Last night Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, quitely announced the next step in the integration of Threads into the Fediverse. In addition to being able to follow Threads accounts from Fediverse/Mastodon accounts, we can now reply to and like Threads posts. Threads are taking a quiet, incremental approach to Federation, but seem genuinely commited. Why is this important? Because I believe that Meta as a whole is moving to an open systems approach, not because Mark Zuckerberg is a nice guy, but because he is smart enough to go open before he is forced to by regulators, (or broken up).

Last night Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, quitely announced the next step in the integration of Threads into the Fediverse. In addition to being able to follow Threads accounts from Fediverse/Mastodon accounts, we can now reply to and like Threads posts. Threads are taking a quiet, incremental approach to Federation, but seem genuinely commited.

From About Threads and the fediverse

If you turn on sharing to the fediverse, users on other servers can search for and follow your profile, view your posts, interact with your content, and share your content to anyone on or off their server. On Threads, you’ll be able to see the number of users on other servers who liked your post. You’ll also be able to see and like their replies to your post.

  • @ExtremeDullardEnglish
    22•16 days ago

    Pray tell, what possible benefit can Lemmy communities gain from Facebook users?

    You do realize most people who joined the Fediverse did so because Facebook and the likes are a steaming pile of shit, right?

    What possible benefit is there to the pile of shit coming to splatter itself here uninvited?

    • originalucifer
      6•16 days ago

      Pray tell, what possible benefit can Lemmy communities gain from Facebook users?

      my goal is to provide an offtramp to those stuck in facebook hell. the first step is for new users to be able to access their old friends. i am human-being centric, not knee-jerk meta-hate-centric. you do you.

      lemmy desperately needs non-bot content. interaction with threads.net could add real conversations.

      You do realize most people who joined the Fediverse did so because Facebook and the likes are a steaming pile of shit, right?

      im not going to make assumptions on ‘most users’ for what is expected to be a federated service between millions of people on thousands of instances of dozens of platforms. thats just stupid.

      What possible benefit is there to the pile of shit coming to splatter itself here uninvited?

      im here to intercommunicate with humans, even if they are on a server run by meta. i dont give a shit about meta, its the people that matter.

    • @infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
      6•16 days ago

      Since I stopped using mainstream socialmedia I can’t follow musicians I’m interested in. Some have a bandcamp page and rss works there, but they just upload their albums there, nothing else. At least I get notified about new releases. I tried to follow facebook and instagram pages via rss-bridge, but it’s not working for years now. My selfhosted bibliogram sometimes work, but it’s unmaintained so it will die at some point if instagram changes something. (I just found there is a maintained fork, yess) My ip usually gets blocked, so I get all posts once a week only in batch.

      So I’m interested, unfortunately none of them enabled fedi integration yet, (afaik it’s a settings for them in threads) so I’m waiting when they will enable it for everyone.

      I don’t want to debate about politics or whatever you are afraid of.

    • Skull giverEnglish
      4•16 days ago

      Facebook isn’t joining Lemmy. Lemmy is a weird ActivityPub server, it barely works with the rest of the Fediverse because of the design of the underlying protocol. They integrate with Mastodon and other timeline based social media first and foremost.

      I personally like the ability to follow people who don’t know how to install Linux on Mastodon. Most servers will silence Threads anyway, so you’ll only see posts from people you follow or posts retooted by people you follow.

      Based on what I’ve seen about ActivityPub’s growth, most people came to Mastodon to flee Twitter or to Lemmy/Kbin to flee Reddit. I don’t think any Facebook alternatives have really taken off.

      • threelonmusketeersEnglish
        6•16 days ago

        I personally like the ability to follow people

        Lemmy is more about following topics, rather than people.

        • Skull giverEnglish
          3•16 days ago

          And Lemmy is completely irrelevant when it comes to Threads. There’s no interaction between the two platforms.