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 🤔
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
L'interface "tweetdeck-like" est désormais dispo sur Threads pour tout le monde.
Même si c'est mille fois moins puissant que certains clients en colonne pour Bluesky ou le Fediverse et que ce "Pour vous" de chie est invirable, j'avoue que ça met un gros coup à la concurrence.
(et RIP l'interface en colonnes par défaut de Mastodon qui prend une nouvelle fois un siècle dans la face)
Kind of creepy: Even though I have #Threads blocked as an instance, I can fully see and even interact with all accounts (and they with me???). At least I can see my test interactions on the #Mastodon interface.
Blocking in Mastodon is a bad joke. It just takes the stuff out of the mentions. 🙄
Wie man #Threads mit der #Mastodon -App komplett blockiert: 1) Zuckerbergs Profil aufrufen. (@zuck) 2) Rechts oben die eingekreisten Punkte anklicken 3) dann threads.net blockieren anklicken 4) Freuen, dass man Zuckerbergs Datenkrake und Tummelplatz für Radikale aus seinem Leben verbannt hat und zeitgleich enttäuscht darüber sein, dass nicht alle Admins von Mastodon bereit sind, das Netzwerk gut zu schützen. #Zuckerberg#Fediverse#Datenschutz#Privacy#Threadsblock#Threadsout
@roy_baer unfortunately, this is functionally just a mute. Once threads users can see Fedi posts, they'll still be able to interact/reply to your posts, you just won't see them. It's like standing in a room full of bears with a blindfold on...😬🤷♂️
@roy_baer Ich hab die Instanz seit langem geblockt und Zuck persönlich auch. Der Block funktioniert nicht. Ich sehe weiter alles in Zucks Profil, kann nur nicht interagieren. Schlimmer: Ich kann mit allen Accounts interagieren, die ich nicht persönlich auch noch blocke (und die mit mir???). Sie erscheinen nur nicht in den Mentions.
Blockieren ist was anderes ... 🙄
When I heard #threads was gonna federate, I got hopeful. all the journalists and politicians might leave #xitter for a place that can also provide them a huge audience but with less assholes. and we will slowly get them to go independent as they recognize that controlling their work doesn't require losing their followers etc. enough people do that and it gets "locked open". we win.
so of course now #meta has to tell them politics won't get the algo boost there...
@Kristofferabild Threads URLs are a bit weird and so they tend to not work correctly with clicking on them in Mastodon. You can find threads users, follow them, and their posts will show up in your feed.