Alaina MartinJul 4, 2024
What makes people NOT LIKE that #threads is apart of the #fediverse? đź‘€ #mastodon #metaverse #meta #instagram #facebook
Show threadAmgineJul 5, 2024

@alainamartin

My personal list:

  • It is meta, with history of acting against the interests of their users. (Therefore, avoid incentivizing users to be a part of Threads/meta.)

  • Threads is not part of the #fediverse. Not all public content is available in either direction; threads users are not usually aware of #fedi responses.

  • [unsourced/unverified] I am told Threads users see what an algorithm selects for them to see, partially supported by above point.

For me, history is important.

Show threadAlaina MartinJul 5, 2024
@amgine okay because I wasn’t sure and downloaded thread today to see if that would be a better “instance” for me not sure if I’m using the right wording. But when I was on I didn’t see people from other instances so I was super confused because they said they were apart of the #fediverse
Show threadAmgine

@alainamartin

In the #fediverse, every server may choose which other servers they will allow connections. Some servers share blocklists of servers which are poorly administrated, and/or have very different cultural/world views within their community. For example, M Trump's TruthSocial is in the fediverse - servers can connect to it - but is nearly universally shunned due to anti-social activities (bots, attacks both social and digital.)

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Jul 5, 2024 at 12:30amWeb
Show threadAmgineJul 5, 2024

@alainamartin

Threads partially allows some communication, but they hide the method to 'enable' the fediverse. And they censor messages from outside Threads with some very odd filters, apparently.

And, as I said, they decide what you see. Which is exactly what the fediverse does not.

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Show threadFinchHaven sfbaJul 5, 2024

@amgine

I was going to reply but you've done just fine with this

Filling in some details, as this issue keeps coming up

1) for #Threads to say that it's #Federated with #Mastodon is -- in short -- a lie

It's marketing PR buzzwords that no one can prevent #Meta from using

2) Threads posts can under some circumstances be seen on Mastodon -- but they are clones only -- I have about ten of the Threads top brass on a Mastodon #List

Replies to them here do not propagate back over to the original post on Threads --they do not show up over there, and I've checked this dozens of times

3) I have had one Reply here to someone from my List, but when I asked him if he'd seen my reply over on Threads and was replying from over there, or if he'd merely seen my reply on the cloned copy over here, he vanished and never answered

Hope this helps a little -- it's a long and confusing issue,,,

cc @alainamartin