Ars TechnicaJul 19, 2023

Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon

Meta promised to make Threads compatible with W3C open standard for social media.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/fear-loathing-and-excitement-as-threads-adopts-open-standard-used-by-mastodon/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon

Meta promised to make Threads compatible with W3C open standard for social media.

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Show threadPrimetime
@arstechnica Does anybody know, how one can find out if their instance is federated with Threads or not?
Jul 19, 2023 at 1:35pmTusky
Show threadoutadoc Jul 19, 2023
@Primetime @arstechnica You will know once Threads actually supports ActivityPub. For now, the people maintaining Mastodon (and mastodon.social, your instance) have released a statement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
What to know about Threads

There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.

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Show threadAlexsandraSmartJul 19, 2023
@Primetime @arstechnica
On my server's website, they have an 'about' page. On there they have a section that drops down saying 'Moderated Servers' that lists all the servers that are limited or suspended.
Show threadCalumJul 22, 2023
@Primetime @arstechnica There's a list of moderated servers on the About page of your server instance, which in your case is https://mastodon.social/about.