Cassidy James   Dec 14, 2023

I’m happy to see Threads starting to federate with Mastodon and other ActivityPub networks!

Open standards are good, and honestly, I have a *ton* of friends already on Instagram and Threads that would never join *yet another social network*, but I’d still love to keep up with them and their lives without having to use Threads. Federating via ActivityPub enables exactly that.

#Threads #Mastodon #ActivityPub #federation #Fediverse

Show threadCassidy James   Dec 14, 2023

IMHO defederating from Threads is like an upstart email service blocking their users from being able to email Gmail users because they don’t like Google. That might seem fine on principle, but in reality it just siloes people from their friends—and makes joining the other service more attractive. 🤷‍♂️

If we want people to use and discover the goodness of Mastodon, we should federate, *and then* let ’em know how much nicer it is over on this side—all while being happy we can interact w/our friends.

Show threadBrodie RobertsonDec 14, 2023
@cassidy A lot of people don't want that, they want it to be this niche little community but then simultaneously get annoyed when nobody cares to join it
Show threadCassidy James   Dec 14, 2023

@BrodieOnLinux they can have their niche little community by just… not following people on Threads, then??

Entire instances preëmptively defederating makes no sense to me.

Show threadBrodie RobertsonDec 14, 2023
@cassidy It's weird for sure, I'm excited for Threads making all this mainstream myself
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@BrodieOnLinux @cassidy I do look forward to being able to do socials with family members without actually joining Facebook or Instagram
Dec 14, 2023 at 5:24pmWeb