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> Threads now supports the ActivityPub protocol that the fediverse (incl Mastodon) is built upon. Given the recent issues with Twitter, my country's president
by cesarb 2y ago
> Threads now supports the ActivityPub protocol that the fediverse (incl Mastodon) is built upon.
Given the recent issues with Twitter, my country's president started posting on an official account on both Bluesky and Threads. Knowing about that ActivityPub support from Threads, I decided to try following him from my Mastodon account, which is in a server which does not block Threads (it can follow the USA president's and vice-president's official Threads accounts just fine), but that didn't work. What I found out after a quick web search, was that this feature is only available for users from the USA, and even then, it has to be manually enabled on each Threads account.
- ocdtrekkie 2y agoMeta is moving very, very slowly on federated development, but they seem committed to doing right by it. While obviously antitrust regulators are likely to be thrilled on the federated approach, Meta seems concerned about all of the other particular legal risks with federation... risks which small servers run by individuals can generally ignore.