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
Mastodon MigrationSo basically one way cross-posting from Threads to the Fediverse... for now, trust us. Kind of like an RSS feed. No ability to comment back from Mastodon, and no ability to post on Threads from Mastodon. If you want to respond to something you see from Threads, you will need to create a Threads account and go there. Seems like a pretty obvious Threads marketing initiative and a play to undermine the Fediverse. Kind of as predicted, this is not "federation".
Mike@mastodonmigration interesting… you’re not wrong here. But it’s not like mastodon users don’t already know about threads. If it was so good we’d already be there in full yeah? I see even just this functionality as just more capabilities for us.
A lot of people trying to find ways this is explicitly malicious. Honestly I think the reason threads federates and why meta is interested in doing so is because it further cements them as the best platform. Twitter will continue its decline & they win.
Not really malicious, but also not federation. We already have no reply accounts mirrored here from Twitter, so what's the difference?
@mastodonmigration Well it’s an “official” mirror rather than un-official. But I like having the read-only Twitter capability here for the like two important accounts I still want to follow. I see this as a good thing and don’t think it would be a meaningful way for them to poach fedi users. They may have some seedy intentions in mind that we can’t pinpoint yet but I don’t think trying to get the couple million people who regularly use mastodon to come over is of much concern to them.