“In 2024, for the first time, it finally feels like we have a critical mass of people and platforms who are interested in rewilding the internet to bring back what we lost, and create something new.
In the past week alone, we've had conversations with Mastodon, Flipboard, The Verge, Buttondown, WriteFreely, and several co-authors of the ActivityPub spec.” Fediverse Threads
From my main Mastodon account. All the various types of accounts I list in that post will all be first-class accounts on Threads too, once it fully federates. To the great benefit of all the platforms that connect to each other.
This is another very strong argument for Threads to support lists (which I know is in the works) so once Threads federates fully users here could do something akin to what I'm doing on Mastodon - creating Threads lists for the various types of Federated accounts (blogs, podcasts, etc)....
@rfk.jr.brain.worm - you have to turn on Fediverse sharing for your Threads account - there are over 11 million folks on Mastodon and other networks that would love to follow your account too. With one click your posts would go there too.
I had to look at this twice to make sure I saw it correctly. Timothy Chambers asking a brain worm to join the fediverse. 😅 That was not on my bingo card.
@scottderrickson - could you go to threads setting and turn on Fediverse sharing ? With one click that will allow your posts to be seen across Mastodon, Flipboard and other open social web platforms too. Many of us there would love to follow this account that way also!
For day two of the TrumpTrialNY and I continue to find breaking news and real time updates working just fine on Threads.
Perhhps it helps that I follow and engage with posts from @gtconway3@gtconway3dg@katiephang@norm.eisen @weissmann11@yonetteajoseph and follow almost every mainstream news source on Threads.
I see people conserned about Threads for breaking news, but again, the play by play of the TrumpTrialNY here from journalists and political observers seems pretty up to the minute to me.
Hey @rfkjr.facts - please turn on Fediverse sharing! Guarantee you a lot of us on over there would be very up for following and sharing your posts over there, too.
Good quote from @reckless1280 I missed earlier, with additional comentary from @laurenshof ....
"'At this point I’m not sure any social platform that launches without an eye towards federation stands a chance, really.'
I agree, but I think the example of Ghost provides an example new and interesting phenomenon: using ActivityPub as a differentiator to compete with existing products, in this case Substack’s news reader." Fediverse Threads
“Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.
…And we are even growing the team behind our Mastodon presence, increasing efforts to engage with your comments on our posts.
We are fully committed to being a real part of the conversation in the fediverse.
Interested in our next steps? Follow us as we take on this new chapter.”
Yes, they are no longer going to be running their own server, but are bulking up their Mastodon teams and migrating the official accounts to other servers for longer term.
“In my perfect world, the ‘Fediverse’ would kick into gear and allow people to just interact across different platforms,” Darcy said. In the absence of that infrastructure in place, Reliable Sources currently posts to Threads, Instagram, and Linkedin.... "
Here is for building for that perfect world. Fediverse Threads ...