The "Catch up on this thread" notifications on #Threads are pretty annoying.
It seems trying to notify you a post from a following that you missed, buried under the chronological Following timeline but not going to be resurfaced by the algorithm in the 'For You' timeline 🤔
Curious to know, how many columns do you set up on apps/clients that allow multi-columns? (Mastodon advanced web interface, Ivory macOS, Mona macOS, @sengi_app , @statuzer , @mastodeck , #TheDesk , Phanpy )
It’s been almost 3 months since #Threads joined the Fediverse family. A quick overview of what changed since then:
The hordes of Nazi/homophobic users from the outside world into our safe islands are nowhere to be seen. I was insulted multiple times a couple of months ago, along the lines of “if you don’t proactively defederate Threads then you’re an asshole who does nothing to protect the marginalized minorities on the Fediverse from the outside world!“. Well, guess what, it turns out that not everyone outside of our comfort zone is a pathological jerk craving for psychological abuse. It turns out that the minorities police over-reacted. And it turns out that the whole Fedipact thingy was probably collective hysteria.
The Threads-Fedi sync is still an opt-in feature, and only available to accounts in selected countries. And posting responses from the Fediverse to a Threads post isn’t supported yet. I’m not sure if they are ever going to change that, but given the lack of announcements in these months I’m wondering if anybody at Meta is even bothering to work on this integration, or if it was just about another loud announcement for what was a time-bound experiment with no follow-ups.
Threads itself, after reaping the initial novelty benefits, is losing momentum. No E-E-E on the horizon for now.
Result: I added a couple of Threads accounts to my list, I see their content on my timeline every now and then as if they were just another Fediverse instance (but one that I can’t directly interact with), end of the story.
Who did/do you follow from #xitter via https://bird.makeup that is now also on #threads and enabling federation, such that you can switch your following method? Not sure I can point to anyone that fit this pattern for me :( #SocialWeb
Meta updates the version of #Instagram and #Threads with new options (respectively the one to automatically post to Threads and that to federate Threads with Fediverse), but again none of these are allowed in Europe.
Why do they think followers are not all the same?