Mastodawn

𝚓𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚕 Mar 21, 2024

it's official, threads is entering the fediverse! we still have a long way to go, but this is our first major step towards the interoperability commitments we made at launch.

if you enabled federation, you will also see your replies to this post in the fediverse. try it out! to find the setting, go to Profile > Account settings > Fediverse sharing to opt-in

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𝚓𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚕 Mar 21, 2024

check out the link below to learn more about the engineering challenges of building fediverse support from our own @christophersu and @sblackst 🙌

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/

Threads has entered the fediverse

Threads has entered the fediverse! As part of our beta experience, now available in a few countries, Threads users aged 18+ with public profiles can now choose to share their Threads posts to other…

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soaproot

@0xjessel @sblackst @christophersu One thing which I find interesting about this is the concept of a non-federated post. Although there are surely threads.net specific considerations, it also reminds me of the option in the Hometown fork of Mastodon which lets you post locally.