I remember all of the skepticism about how Threads was not really going to integrate with fediverse. And now it’s here and actually quite mundane. Joe Biden’s Threads account can now be followed on Mastodon.
Interoperability between social networks is here.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24119353/joe-biden-threads-mastodon-activitypub-fediverse
@carnage4life and hundreds of others already!
There will be teething issues, but it's a hopeful step for me at least
@carnage4life @docpop yes but with the caveat that replies/references like your post are not, I think, yet federating back to Threads (ideally that’s the plan and would make the differences pretty minor)
In any case it’s fantastic to be able to follow accounts where it’s unlikely that I would be a mutual of as news sources (though that said - Barack Obama did follow me on Twitter - though I assume it was just an app or a social media staffer who decided to follow me for some reason)
@carnage4life No surprise that by using the same protocol communication is possible. The challenge for Meta is to implement proper moderation, and given the history of Meta I do not think that will happen.
O, by the way, why did Facebook drop support for XMPP? If interoperability is such a big concern, why not open up Facebook to other parties?
@carnage4life
Unless comments and posts work both ways, they have not integrated with the fediverse.
Close as I can tell, they essentially have built one of those bot instances that reposts tweets. Or, in short, they put up a billboard here.
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