Drew HarwellWith Threads' entry into the fediverse, I'll be posting and playing around with two accounts now.
This one, on Mastodon.social: @drewharwell
And this one, on Threads: @[email protected]
How are y'all planning to do it?
Jason Petersen (he)@drewharwell Continue using Mastodon. I'm not a journalist though, so the decision is easy (it's one of ethics)
@jason Totally fair. I have to be a little self-promotional piggy for story / sourcing purposes, which does steer my thinking a bit
@drewharwell I mean at least you're here. I think if journalists had moved en masse to Mastodon it would've been a whole social story at the time, but many wouldn't cede the convenient sources they had built on Twitter.
I'm pretty happy about the integration though, I have a lot of local journalists who are on Threads I've pinged to please turn on the new feature because I've missed them without Twitter.
Jason Parker (he/they)@drewharwell @[email protected] Threads has entered the fediverse, but the fediverse has not entered Threads, as best as I can tell. I'm not sure I'd call that federation.
Randahl Fink@drewharwell why would you need redundant accounts, when you already have the original Mastodon account? Can the the Threads users not follow your original account?
Bill Of Earth42@randahl @drewharwell Keep it simple, dude.
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Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦@drewharwell @[email protected] not on Threads, never again for billionaire-owned, centralized social media.
Baron Vonskinnback@drewharwell @[email protected] I will be blocking the entire threads domain...
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Darren du Nord@drewharwell @[email protected]
I have yet to see any posts from #Threads users that contain a hash tag. Are tags being filtered out, or simply nobody is using them?
I have yet to see any posts from #Threads users that contain a hash tag. Are tags being filtered out, or simply nobody is using them?
George Liquor, American@drewharwell @[email protected] I won't be seeing any posts from Threads
LittleGoatGirl@drewharwell @[email protected] waiting for someone to tell me how to see threads from my mastodon acct.
Brian Pepple 
@drewharwell @[email protected] Plan on staying only on Mastodon, but have no problem federating with Threads in the future.
René Seindal (MOVED)@drewharwell @[email protected] I won't have any Meta apps on my phone.
Jorge Candeias@drewharwell @[email protected] I'm planning on not touching threads at all.
Ross Grady@drewharwell Apparently, based on my brief experimentation, the Meta implementation of AP is sufficiently broken that my server software, Akkoma, can't even parse whatever the webfinger response is in order to make it possible to follow someone.
Moreover, though, unless I'm fundamentally misunderstanding, it appears to be one-way -- I don't see a way for Threads users to follow my Fedi account. Which completely defeats the purpose & would seem to support those ppl who accuse Meta of doing all this disengenuously :)
Moreover, though, unless I'm fundamentally misunderstanding, it appears to be one-way -- I don't see a way for Threads users to follow my Fedi account. Which completely defeats the purpose & would seem to support those ppl who accuse Meta of doing all this disengenuously :)
התנועה לזכויות דיגיטליות@drewharwell I'll just give you a heads up, many fediverse servers blocked threads' domain even before they enabled the gateway, not wanting meta to collect private texts to train models or build profiles on users, so for many on the long tail of small servers you will be invisible.
@digirights Yeah, as is their right - I'll probably still post from the .social server for that reason.
Amanda Forsyth@drewharwell I have rejected Threads so far. Why would I change my mind now?
Allen Brunson@drewharwell @[email protected] meta/facebook and all the other big tech companies have shown us what they're made of plenty of times already. i am certainly not creating any more "content" on their servers, ever.
RolandOfGilead@drewharwell @[email protected] not going to do anything to help Zucks empire. Mastodon only please.
Anathema Device@drewharwell @[email protected] keeping the fuck away from another Meta product, that's what I plan to do :)
CassandraVert@drewharwell @[email protected]
Mastodon will be my main base. I will follow my Threads people from Mastodon as I am able to. If I see cross posters, I will try to determine which is the dominant account and follow just that one.
Speaking of which, which will be your dominant account?
Mastodon will be my main base. I will follow my Threads people from Mastodon as I am able to. If I see cross posters, I will try to determine which is the dominant account and follow just that one.
Speaking of which, which will be your dominant account?
@CassandraVert @[email protected] I've been trying to make a go of Threads (after focusing on Mastodon and Bluesky for spells). I still think Masto offers a better experience and like it more in many ways except that I can reach fewer of the inertia-stuck masses.
@drewharwell @[email protected]
If threads is truly federated, then your accounts should look the same to another user. You're probably better off basing yourself here. Your total reach is greater here since some servers here aren't talking to threads. And of course you have better control of your data here and a better expectation of what your user experience will be.
If threads is truly federated, then your accounts should look the same to another user. You're probably better off basing yourself here. Your total reach is greater here since some servers here aren't talking to threads. And of course you have better control of your data here and a better expectation of what your user experience will be.
AI6YR Ben@CassandraVert @drewharwell @[email protected] Drew has 70K people following here, 7.7K on Threads... audience is better here.
Dana@drewharwell probably blocking threads, unless someone proves to me that Meta isn't collecting data on anyone that interacts with one of their users. I haven't interacted with Meta for a while and don't plan to restart now.