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Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk's private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year.

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[–] axtualdave@lemmy.world 163 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can also find it on Mastodon, @elonjet@mastodon.social

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Relative Lemmy link /u/elonjet@mastodon.social.

I guess Lemmy doesn't show users mastodon posts? :)

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think ActivityPub states that you must follow a user for their posts to federate, but Lemmy currently doesn't give a way to follow users only communities, so it will probably eventually work

(I think technically communities are fake users that retweet/boost the posts to them?)

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Communities are Actors in AP with type "Group", and in Lemmy they're automated to Announce anything posted to them to all followers. Users are also Actors with type "User". I think the word Actor is intentionally used in the spec to avoid people thinking they're meant to represent actual people. In order for us to see elonjet here the account would have to either tag a Lemmy community or reply directly to a Lemmy user's comment.

[–] Ranessin@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

You can follow Lemmy posts/communities from Mastodon, but not the other way round as of now.

[–] axtualdave@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Awesome, thank you!

I didn't see any content when I tried it before posting, so I figured to just leave it out. You're right, though. Hopefully, as Lemmy evolves, we'll have a way to follow or "subscribe to" Mastodon users like we do communities.

[–] ichigo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Didn't know that. Thanks lol

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.one 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guarantee you if he puts a Zuckerberg tracker on Twitter, Elon won't say shit about that one.

[–] sneezy@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you implying he's not actually a free speech absolutist and only said so for clout from his cult of worshipers?

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

The Elongated Muskrat would never say anything just for clout, obviously OP just doesn't understand or appreciate his genius!

/S in case it wasn't obvious.

[–] AliasWyvernspur@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] moitoi@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

It's on mastodon. It's not the biggest issue if Meta removed it.

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Just checked, it's active on threads if you search "elonjet"

[–] SeeStars@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

But not Mastodon?

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

You love to see it 🛬

[–] skymtf@pricefield.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How exactly does this work within TOS I thought threads like most meta products lacks an official api

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 2 points 1 year ago

It doesn't seem to be automated

[–] Teppic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

He may be doing it manually, it wouldn't be the first time. When he first got banned from twitter and started publishing on Mastodon he was doing all the updates by hand for a while.

Long term there are ways and means that it could be done via the html front end, it would probably take a little bit more monitoring but there seem to be plenty of people willing to help him!

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