Dare Obasanjo

So much for people saying Threads won't support Fediverse integration. I've been dogfooding the feature since before the service launched and the team has 100% been planning to support interoperability with Mastodon from day one.

Kudos to all the folks on the Threads team who've been working on this. So glad to see this test announced before the end of the year.

https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77

Dec 13, 2023 at 6:15pmWeb
Show threadDoug WilsonDec 13, 2023
@carnage4life A tentative “Hell yeah” to this
Show threadtriswebDec 13, 2023
@carnage4life Awesome. All for more connections in the open network!
Show threadCappielloDec 13, 2023

@carnage4life

Really good to hear. I was beginning to have doubts of it happening.

Show threadTom Bellin Dec 13, 2023

@carnage4life Thinking about starting a betting pool to see how long Threads manages to stay off the various community-driven instance block lists.

I'm sure there are other technical issues with Threads entering the Fediverse as a monolithically sized instance.

Can you say more about what you mean by "dogfooding"? At first blush, it sounds like you're saying that Threads is already, secretly federated.

Show threadDare ObasanjoDec 13, 2023
@tob I've had access to the features in test form internally at Meta.
Show threadLee Fife - old accountDec 13, 2023
@tob @carnage4life personally, any instance that pre-emptively blocks Threads is an instance that I'd leave if I were on it.
Maybe it'll turn out to be horrible. But more likely it's the usual mix of good people and bad actors.
And we have the tools already to handle the badies....
Show threadTom Bellin Dec 13, 2023

@colo_lee @carnage4life I suspect that most instances will start with a wary permissiveness irt Threads (it is still Meta after all).

My question is more how will Threads handle moderation requests from the various disparate instances and their admins? e.g. What happens when Threads users inevitably dogpile a Mastodon account?

Show threadLee Fife - old accountDec 13, 2023

@tob @carnage4life Yes, responding to moderation reports will be very interesting to watch.

I'd rather assume most Threads users are decent people. I don't see any reason to assume apriori that they're any worse than the full-features slice of humanity we already have here. Cause there are already some pretty nasty pieces of work here. But, most people are still good.

Show threadTom Bellin Dec 13, 2023

@colo_lee @carnage4life I don't anticipate that they will be worse than the fediverse *in-toto*.

I DO expect that the Threads population will be significantly worse than the "best" instances here.

Show threadLee Fife - old accountDec 13, 2023
@tob @carnage4life time will tell, won't it?
Show threadAmith (අමිත්)Dec 13, 2023
@carnage4life are we able to view zuck's profile here yet?
Show threadRichard GrantDec 13, 2023
@amwg It doesn't seem so, yet. I just tried a search for his threads account ([email protected]) but the mastodon.social server cannot find it. Yet!
Show threadAmith (අමිත්)Dec 13, 2023
@richardgrant yup, same here
Show threadKevin MarksDec 13, 2023
@carnage4life dogfooding it on a private instance? Or is mas.to receiving AP traffic from threads.net?
Show threadDare ObasanjoDec 13, 2023
@KevinMarks private instance
Show threadBala YogeshDec 13, 2023
@carnage4life This really is a big step forward from Meta. Never thought we'd see this and that they'd backtrack. Kudos indeed to everyone at Meta who worked on this..
Show threadMatthew CowenDec 13, 2023
@carnage4life I think a lot of us were saying that it wouldn't federate until it could find a way to monetise. As long as that monetisation stays on their walled garden non-internet, they're welcome to. It has no place here.
Show threadEvan ProdromouDec 13, 2023
@carnage4life Can you give us the details on how you connect? I can't see Webfinger or Activity Streams 2.0 content from threads.net yet.
Show threadLee Fife - old accountDec 13, 2023

@carnage4life This is only good.
Another protocol win.

And if Threads users turn out to be problematic, we have the tools to make them go away.

It will be interesting to see how they handle moderation reports.

Show threadsbarrax aka Marco FrattolaDec 13, 2023
@carnage4life in the sidelines, I appreciated this comment:
Show threadMarshaDec 13, 2023
@carnage4life Meta has already facebookified Threads meaning your following feed doesn't show all posts from people you follow. I"m betting on bluesky.
Show threadMieszko ŚlusarczykDec 14, 2023
@carnage4life You do understand why people (especially on mastodon) would not trust Meta, do you?
Show threadJob DestroyerDec 14, 2023

@spitfire

for the sake of their career's it's more convenient to ignore people's concerns and act like this is great

Show threadMieszko ŚlusarczykDec 14, 2023
@big_louse I’m not saying it’s bad, just that people may have valid reasons to distrust them;)