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Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ (techcrunch.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"Threads is deepening its ties to the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which powers services like X alternative Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipboard and other apps. On Wednesday, Meta announced that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own. In addition, posts that originated through the Threads API, like those created via third-party apps and scheduling services, will now be syndicated to the fediverse. The latter had previously been announced via an in-app message informing users that API posts would be shared to the fediverse starting on August 28."

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 months ago (49 children)

Daily reminder to defederate from and block threads.net (and optionally all instances that do not do the same).

[–] kerthale 8 points 3 months ago (23 children)

Maybe we should do a reverse embrace-extend-extinguish where we open everything up until the point that they start introducing ads to enshittify the platform. Then after that great migration say goodbye to them

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (22 children)

They can't place ads in your feeds.

[–] kerthale 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s exactly the point. There are a lot of users on Threads who might be happy with the Fediverse. Threads will undoubtedly need a put in ads in their app/instance, their enshittification is inevitable. If it becomes easy for users to move over to more friendly Fediverse instances, that is a win.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

My bad - I misread. Yeah that's a good point.

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