Tim ChambersHard to overstate how important this news is. #Threads
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000120/threads-meta-activitypub-test-mastodon
cc: @fediversenews
David Carroll@tchambers When they say you “can’t post to Threads” do you think they really mean that a Threads user would have to boost a Mastodon post into the Threads instance? So more just a misunderstanding of how federation works?
Jon (now at neuromatch.social)@profcarroll
Apparently their plan is to roll it out incrementally -- Evan described it as "First read-only, then with likes and shares, then replies, then two-way follow."
https://cosocial.ca/@evan/111567567468691751
[No, I don't know what "read-only" means.]
Evan Prodromou (@[email protected])
@[email protected] sure. Threads fediverse support is going to be rolling out in stages over the next year. First read-only, then with likes and shares, then replies, then two-way follow. They are mostly concerned about privacy for Threads users, so they won't be federating in ways that put that privacy at risk.
@profcarroll We're all reading tea leaves. My take is that in an early stage posts from Threads will federate OUT, but posts from the Mastodon/etc Fediverse will not federate IN to Threads -- for that early phase. (Which makes sense from a dev POV)
Crawl, walk run.
So replies back to Threads posts from the Fedi, and DM's to Threads users from the Fedi would not be seen by Threads users initially.