Adam MosseriWe are working to make this option available to all public accounts on Threads, not just a handful of testers. We're starting small to make sure we have time to work through all the challenges, as our systems historically have been not been designed with this use case in mind.
We also plan to make it so replies from people in the Fediverse can show up for people posting from Threads to the Fediverse. It's a bad experience now that I have to leave the Threads app to see replies I'm getting from the broader community.
We also plan to build support for Threads users to follow Fediverse accounts, so that content can flow from the Fediverse back into Threads. There's a fair amount to figure out with regards to privacy and integrity, but we're actively working through those issues.
Eventually, it should also be possible to enable creators to leave Threads and take their followers with them to another app/server. I believe that it's important that creators own their relationship with their audience.
I expect all of this to take the better part of a year, and to roll out in stages. That's a lot longer than I, or anybody on the team, wants, but it's the reality given all the other work we need to be balance.
Evan Prodromou@mosseri I'm really glad to see the work you're doing. Please let the team know how much it's appreciated.
John Harvey
HECHT INS GEFECHT
B.@mosseri
How to block threads.net
1. search for threads.net in accounts
2. on any account registered under threads.net click on the three dots
3. "block domain"
Done.
#threads #meta #surveillancecapitalism #privacy
How to block threads.net
1. search for threads.net in accounts
2. on any account registered under threads.net click on the three dots
3. "block domain"
Done.
#threads #meta #surveillancecapitalism #privacy
Clinton Anderson SwordForHire
Han@mosseri Glad to read it. Hello from the other side!
Charlie Fish@mosseri @stroughtonsmith Iโd love to see a Q&A regarding all of this. Really interested in how #threads will handle defederation and broader moderation decisions. Iโm sure others have some fantastic questions theyโd love answers to as well.
Bongolian@mosseri Fuck your entire corporation.
@mosseri Threads is a Meta data collection operation intended to feed into AI-powered disinformation campaigns.
Meta does not get the benefit of the doubt given its role in enabling genocide.
t0nyyates@mosseri This is a great vision and I hope that the response from the Mastodon crowd is sufficiently constructive that Federating can be meaningful. So far this is the best blueprint for a social media replacement for Twitter. The scale and usability of Threads but with the portability and potential decentralisation of Mastodon/the Fediverse.
@mosseri I checked on Threads and [obvs using my independent identity there, same handle as here] can't see my own reply to this thread posted above, but I can see the original on Threads, obviously. I guess all this comes later.
hoodscientist@mosseri this is surprisinglyโฆ really good from Meta ๐ฏ
Mieszko ลlusarczyk@mosseri Happy to hear that, meta/facebook is not really known for this approach;)
Gary Goosey โพ ๐บ๐ธ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ ๐งต@mosseri Welcome to the Fediverse. Glad youโve finally made it to this neck of the woods. As a Threads user from day one, this is an event worthy of a huge cheer. ๐๐๐ฅ
@mosseri This is utter nonsense given Meta's history of intellectual property theft (for generative AI), and genocide enablement (Rohingya).
https://universeodon.com/@OccuWorld@syzito.xyz/111607780249583116
OccuWorld (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image โI believe that Facebook represents one of the gravest threats to democracies around the world, and I am amazed that we have allowed our freedoms to be taken away by technology companiesโ greed for growth and revenues.โ - Maria Ressa, How to Stand Up to a Dictator, 2022 #Fedipact - The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2 An interactive list of which ActivityPub (Matodon, Lemmy, FireFish, etc) instances are federating with Threads.net #FediPact #NoPassaran
Archie@mosseri So can people on Threads and Mastodon see this reply to you?
Ryan Wild
Toni Aittoniemi@wild1145 @Archie8 @mosseri Yeah. Certainly interesting. How does legality even work for a federated package of information: Essentially itโs copied a great deal of times.
My instance may be a European one, but the data of my posts no longer really is European after itโs been broadcasted on something the instance doesnโt even claim to control.
Marco van der HeideWell, everything you post on the Fediverse is already fully available for everyone on the internet to see / gather / analyse. So I've never understood the privacy issues regarding the posts on the Fediverse.
The Threads app however requires a lot of permissions, I would never install the app on my phone ๐ .
๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐๐๐@mosseri yep, can't see that reply from Threads.net yet.
Basically make Threads part of the Fediverse, so it is interoperable. As I have a small family instance I'm curious about the impact this has.
For now I'm positive ๐
Cody 
@[email protected] You better allow Threads users to follow fediverse accounts too... Else you're so getting defederated. Interoperability should be a 2 way dialogue. Not 1 way.
Sven (Der Cybรคr)@cody @[email protected] just nope ๐
@[email protected] @cody cooperate with threads.
@Sven @[email protected] oh, fair enough, go ahead and block them, I really don't like them either trust me