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Support for ActivityPub, the protocol behind Mastodon, coming into Threads
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoI don't know how or where the rumor-mill started, but it's been suggested Threads (2.0) might not have ActivityPub inbox/ingress; you'll only be able to send your activity out to others, not get comments/replies/reactions in. So, this tweet: > If you're wondering why this matters, here's a reason: you may one day end up leaving Threads, or, hopefully not, end up de-platformed. If that ever happens, you should be able to take your audience with you to another server. Being open can enable that. This could very well be a lark, but... the narrow case stated here is only about being able to keep your viewers. That's consistent with the view that Threads wont really interoperate bidirectionally with ActivityPub, but will merely be able to syndicate out.
- garyrob 3y agoI listened to the Adam Mosseri interview on the New York Times' Hard Fork podcast today, and I came away with the strong impression that it will interoperate bidirectionally. He was asked what the business reasons are for doing that, and he defended the idea that it's a better idea for the long run. Unless I completely misunderstood what he was saying. This doesn't mean, in my mind, that we can count on it forever, but I would be surprised if Threads is not a full-fledged two-way member of ActivityPub at the start of its ActivityPub participation and for at least a substantial amount of time after that. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/podcasts/special-episode-metas-twitter-rival-arrives-with-adam-mosseri.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/podcasts/special-episode-...