Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

And hopefully no instance will federate with them... Right?

Hi. No one is creating content on Threads, can we steal your content, please?

Threads federation is mostly targeted towards Mastodon than Lemmy, so I highly doubt it will make much of a difference whether any Lemmy instance federates or not, since Lemmy is purely group based and does not federate well with even Mastodon to begin with as there is a huge difference in design philosophy. (Which means I can stay under the radar a bit longer.)

However, I don't think Facebook will stop at Threads, they are using Threads as a preliminary test, and if it goes well, I think the next step they could do is to get Instagram itself to federate.

So here is a thought: suppose reddit or Instagram are open to federation, would you say federating with them and getting all their content will be worth it?

RIP open and user owned Internet movement attempt.

Say Hello to Fediverse+, for only $39.99 a month you can access ad free browsing as your feed is fed only corpo approved posts that have flooded and drowned out any alternative voices.

And so it begins.....Embrace.

Has mastodon blocked threads? Please block it. Kill that shit and hope thread will take zuckerberg out too.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Joining the fediverse — the decentralized world of social media that includes Mastodon, Pixelfed, and other services that all interoperate through ActivityPub — has been on the Threads team’s to-do list since the very beginning.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri told The Verge in July that he believed decentralizing the platform was key to making it relevant to a new generation of creators.

Skeptics have long held that Threads would never actually federate, even as Zuckerberg, Mosseri, and others at Meta kept promising they would.

For the largest and most centralized social service on the web, suddenly throwing open the gates to other platforms seemed like an unlikely pivot.

This test appears to only cover one small part of a truly federated social network — it doesn’t sound like you’ll be able to post from Mastodon to Threads, for instance, and you can’t move your account between services.

But the test at least reaffirms Meta’s commitment to ActivityPub and to being part of the broader open social web.

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Fuck SuckerBurg all my homies hate Suckerburg

Best way to centralize the decentralized network.

Threads is a failed platform. It isn't like they're adding federation to Facebook.

I'm all for it. People can defederate if they need to, but I'm all for just letting it happen. If I have friends on threads but I don't wanna join, cool.

Let's all tone down the snobbery.