Mastodawn

John Gruber Jul 6, 2023

Threads is the most fun, most interesting new product of the year, and no one in the E.U. can use it, or will be able to use it anytime soon, because their own elected officials passed a law that effectively bans it.

Nice job. Have fun over here in the library.

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Iestyn Lloyd

Jul 6, 2023

@gruber What will happen once they’re connected to the fediverse and people will be able to log in using Ivory? Won't that get around the issue?

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JonathanTreffler

@iestynx @gruber

Neither Mastodon nor Threads use the Server-to-Client API Spec of Activity Pub. And it is pretty clear, that Meta will not add an open API to Threads, like Mastodon has. SO you will not be able to login into Threads using any App other than Threads.

But you will be able to interact with Threads users from any other Fediverse platform and if that is a platform with third-party app support, like mastodon, you can use any compatible third-party app.