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Second, threads posted by me and a few members of the Threads team will be available on other fediverse platforms like Mastodon starting this week. This test is a small but meaningful step towards making Threads interoperable with other apps using ActivityPub — we’re committed to doing this so that people can find community and engage with the content most relevant to them, no matter what app they use.

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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 109 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

And I have moved my mastodon account to an instance who actively defederated Threads. I'm not interested in interacting with anyone on that network.

And I'm fucking sick of the "content relevant for me" thing. I interact with people asking/giving help, discussing and so on. Mindlessly consuming "content" is simply a disease.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 19 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I don't get why Mastodon servers feel the need to fully defederate from Threads. Silencing them is much better. It allows your users to follow Threads accounts without people who don't know anyone on that side getting overwhelmed by the global timeline, as Threads is about twelve times bigger than the entire rest of the Fediverse combined.

Nobody is moving from Threads to Mastodon because mastodon.zip decided to defederate all you're doing by blocking them is preventing the users with friends who use Threads from using your site correctly.

Of course some platforms, like Lemmy and Kbin, don't support moderation features like silencing, it makes sense to fully defederate in those cases, but only because of technical restrictions, really.

[–] sour@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

why wont threads friends go to mastodon

Same reason why Telegram friends won't go to Signal: they don't care about the platform they use, and you end up being that friend if you ask them to change their habits for you.

Once Threads support federation in both direction, the need to move disappears completely. Why would you move to a server run by volunteers that sometimes goes down when Elon says something stupid, especially if your Mastodon friends can interact with your account like normal. That's ActivityPub working and doing what it's supposed to do.

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