Eugen RochkoDec 14, 2023
#Threads is testing federation for a few selected profiles. I'm now following @mosseri! It's one-way for now, but it's exciting. It's a step towards the interoperable social web that we've been advocating for 🙂
Show threadEugen RochkoDec 14, 2023

If you’ve got questions about what interoperability with #Threads means, we wrote this up back in July, and you can still refer to it:

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.

Mastodon Blog
Show threadEugen RochkoDec 14, 2023
Make no mistake, this is huge for Mastodon. Currently people have to choose between X, Mastodon, and Threads, and network effects play a dominant role in that choice. If we can say, you can access all the folks that went to Threads from a Mastodon account, that makes it a far more attractive option given all of its other perks 😉
Show threadGraham DownsDec 14, 2023

@Gargron I, for one, am looking forward to this. It's one more nail in X's coffin. Some of my friends moved to Threads, so now I can follow them again.

Others moved to Bluesky. I can't follow them YET, but it seems they're also trialling federation, so I might be able to soon.

Pretty soon, anyone still on X and nowhere else is really going to start feeling the isolation.

Show threadAndrea Grandi 🦕Dec 14, 2023
@GrahamDowns @Gargron you won't be able to follow people on Bluesky "ever". The federation there is only among bluesky's servers. They use a completely different protocol, by choice 🤷🏻‍♂️
Show threadJoshua Barretto
@andreagrandi @GrahamDowns @Gargron That doesn't mean that you can't bridge the two.
Dec 14, 2023 at 7:21amWeb
Show threadAndrea Grandi 🦕Dec 14, 2023
@jsbarretto @GrahamDowns @Gargron correct. Bridges exist already I think. But you need a third party thing to connect the two.
Show threadJoshua BarrettoDec 14, 2023
@andreagrandi @GrahamDowns @Gargron But Bluesky could easily build just a bridging layer into their infrastructure if they wanted to.
Show threadGraham DownsDec 14, 2023

@jsbarretto See this other reply to me: https://fosstodon.org/@spiritedpause/111577510455075260

There is already a bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky. It's one-way right now, but it's all ready to become two-way when they're done with their federation experiments. As I understand it, anyway. :-)

@andreagrandi @Gargron

Andrew :fediverse: (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] It's only one way right now until Bluesky turns on their federation. Once they do, they'll be able to see replies from Mastodon accounts, since this bridge will create a Bluesky profile that mirrors your Mastodon account and its posts/replies. bsky.social and bsky.team are just different "instances" on bluesky. Just so happens that AOC uses the bsky.social instance that most users do, while Bluesky team members use bsky.team

Fosstodon