I might be misremembering, but the previous official statements from Meta on Threads integration was that it would start as a one-way push. Meaning that Mastodon clients could follow a Threads user and see the discussion happening on Threads, but that it would NOT merge back any comments Mastodon users would post.
Did they announce the two-way sync should be operational by today?
@tivasyk@angdraug I'm not sure it had already been as awful as it is now, back in 2016? At that time Telegram was just a competitor to WhatsApp, not a hub for conspiracy nonsense and extremism.
@TFFPrisoner i can tolerate hubs for conspiracy nonsense and extremism, but telegram is more than just another twitter + discord pretending to be secure — it belongs to a #russian and is probably transparent to #kgb, there are reports of opposition journalists having been misteriously arrested by russian police after exchanging encrypted messages over telegram.
@tivasyk@TFFPrisoner Telegram is much like TikTok: way too beholden to an authoritarian regime to be trusted. I support the TikTok divestment act, and if Telegram goes down in flames I will shed no tears.
That doesn't stop me from calling out Zuckerberg's anti-competitive tactics. Facebook, due to its massive scale, does more harm globally than Telegram and TikTok combined, even though it's not overtly beholden (other than the Milner investment) to Russia or China. Delenda fucking est.
@angdraug@tivasyk@TFFPrisoner Wasn't Durov outside of Russia since 2014? Like, the man literally created VK and gave up on it because it couldn't keep up with their censorship requests.
@dansup@pixelfed Meta was, is, and never will be trustworthy. So what's your problem? I've blocked it from Day 1 and do this with other instances not playing fair or spreading BS aswell.
@PersistentDreamer Pixelfed is an ActivityPub-powered social platform that @dansup is developing. It's focused on photo and image sharing. It's interoperable with Mastodon, so you can follow Pixelfed users from here if you want to. https://pixelfed.org
The above screenshot documents and incident where a post on Meta's Threads was automatically marked as spam for mentioning Pixelfed. This is likely because Pixelfed is a competitor to Instagram and Meta is petty.
I've found a lot of flakiness in activity pub comment threads between PeerTube and Mastodon alone, with each federated instance having random seeming replies and sub threads missing. Past behaviour may make malice an easy assumption, but for something like this with new software, bugginess or misguided implementation is much more likely.
@dansup@pixelfed but an expected one, I don't expect billionaires to easily relinquish control of the for-profit social media monsters they've created.
Threads doesn't show replies, likes, or profiles from ANY other servers. Their roadmap for joining the fediverse, from the very start, was such that they'll start with one-way federation, and then, sometime later, make it two-way.
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