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 threadPrimetimeJul 19, 2023
@arstechnica Does anybody know, how one can find out if their instance is federated with Threads or not?
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@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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Jul 19, 2023 at 1:38pmElk