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.
@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.
@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?
@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.
@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.
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