Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the 'fediverse' | TechCrunch
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Meta announced Wednesday that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own.

“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.”

  • In #Flancia we'll meet
    9•1 year ago

    @Dirk @xelar thanks for your view, question: defederating with threads seems reasonable, but why would you defederate “second level” like this? I ask as the instance I’m in decided not to defederate with threads for now and I’m personally OK with that.

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
      9•1 year ago

      A is defederated from Threads, but federates with B. And B federates with Threads. Now Meta can cash out on your data via B.

      • @[email protected]English
        43•1 year ago

        Now Meta can cash out on your data via B.

        Everything we’re posting is public, anyone can cash in on it regardless of who you defederate.

        • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
          9•1 year ago

          Everyone can break into my house regardless of having a key or not. I still don’t have my key delivered to them.

          • ddhEnglish
            25•1 year ago

            Everyone can break into the park you visit and talk to people at

      • copygirlEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        I don’t think that’s how it works and it would likely not be legal. By explicitly blocking Threads, you make a big statement about not wanting your instance’s posts to show up there. Also from a technical standpoint, I don’t think a “middle-man” instance will push posts from another instance to a third one. You’d have to explicitly scrape data that’s not available via the API. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

        • In #Flancia we'll meet
          4•1 year ago

          @copygirl @Dirk yes, I also get the feeling this would not work in a compliant setup but it seems like a good idea to test this in e.g. a federation test suite.

          Maybe @evanprodromou would know how this should work, or would know of someone who might be testing this kind of scenario.