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Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users by year-end, according to Meta meeting details (techcrunch.com)

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Threads’ roadmap for integrations with the fediverse, aka the network of decentralized apps that includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and others, has been revealed.

A new blog post by Tom Coates, the co-founder of an older decentralized app called Planetary, details the events of a December meeting at Meta’s offices where the Threads team had reached out to members of the fediverse community to get feedback about the Instagram-led project to take on X with a decentralized app that will eventually interoperate with others in the fediverse by way of the ActivityPub protocol.

Meta did, in fact, start testing ActivityPub integration in December, allowing Threads posts to appear on Mastodon.

In addition, this rule would potentially come into play when a user banned from Meta’s platform moved their content to another Mastodon server.

Coates suggested various reasons why Meta may be pursuing this — perhaps to thwart coming regulation or to take over Twitter/X’s place in the zeitgeist as new owner Elon Musk turns it into an everyday app, potentially diluting its value as a fast-breaking news network and home to conversations.

Explained Flipboard CEO Mike McCue in a conversation with TechCrunch last month, what excited him about Mastodon and ActivityPub was that it wasn’t just about where social media was heading, it was where the web itself was going.

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