#Threads is not federating with #Mastodon. Not anytime soon, maybe not ever.

In case you missed the #Meta inside information from the Verge's Alex Heath: "Re: ActivityPub integration, it's still a priority for Threads but a "long" way out." https://mastodon.social/@alexeheath/110713788758597963

This whole federating with Threads thing has never made any sense and now we see it is very likely they have just been playing us the whole time. Let's stop falling for this nonsense and get back to building great open social media.

@mastodonmigration I give it 4 to 6 months. Plenty of time to prep and build here…
@tchambers Please at least entertain the possibility that this is and has always been a PR stunt. The more time you waste chasing after these guys, the less you spend focused on building out this amazing open social media revolution.

@mastodonmigration @tchambers I mean, whether it's threads or not something big is eventually going to come knocking. I think a lot of the current discussion is a pretty valuable exercise in what we need to improve for when it happens.

Right now it's an emergency if it does. Hopefully if there's more time (whether 6 months or 6 years) there will either be better tools in place to allow "federation at a distance," or at least a more coordinated and less bitter process is available for deciding what to do about it.

@megmac @mastodonmigration @tchambers hey, how come you people at treehouse keep making sense?