Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub
Adam Mosseri, on Threads, with the other big news of the day:
Second, threads posted by me and a few members of the Threads team
will be available on other fediverse platforms like Mastodon
starting this week. This test is a small but meaningful step
towards making Threads interoperable with other apps using
ActivityPub — we’re committed to doing this so that people can
find community and engage with the content most relevant to them,
no matter what app they use.
And behold, you can now follow @mosseri@threads.net from any Mastodon instance who administrators haven’t chosen to preemptively block Threads. When Threads launched this summer, with the stated intention of federating via ActivityPub, there were a lot of naysayers who thought it would never happen. But here we are.
Johannes Ernst, on his blog:
I participated in a meeting titled “Meta’s Threads Interoperating
in the Fediverse Data Dialogue” at Meta in San Francisco
yesterday. It brought together a good number of Meta/Threads
people (across engineering, product, policy), some Fediverse
entrepreneurs like myself, some people who have been involved in
ActivityPub standardization, a good number of industry observers /
commentators, at least one journalist, and people from independent
organizations whose objective is to improve the state of the net.
Altogether about 30 people.
It was conducted under the Chatham House rule, so I am only
posting my impressions, and I don’t identify people and what
specific people said. […]
I came away convinced that the team working on Threads indeed
genuinely wants to make federation happen, and have it happen in a
“good” way. I did not get any sense whatsoever that any of the
people I interacted were executing any secret agenda, whether
embrace-and-extend, favoring Threads in some fashion or anything
like that. (Of course, that is a limited data point, but I thought
I convey it anyway.)
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Adam Mosseri, on Threads, with the other big news of the day:
Second, threads posted by me and a few members of the Threads team
will be available on other fediverse platforms like Mastodon
starting this week. This test is a small but meaningful step
towards making Threads interoperable with other apps using
ActivityPub — we’re committed to doing this so that people can
find community and engage with the content most relevant to them,
no matter what app they use.
And behold, you can now follow @mosseri@threads.net from any Mastodon instance who administrators haven’t chosen to preemptively block Threads. When Threads launched this summer, with the stated intention of federating via ActivityPub, there were a lot of naysayers who thought it would never happen. But here we are.
I participated in a meeting titled “Meta’s Threads Interoperating
in the Fediverse Data Dialogue” at Meta in San Francisco
yesterday. It brought together a good number of Meta/Threads
people (across engineering, product, policy), some Fediverse
entrepreneurs like myself, some people who have been involved in
ActivityPub standardization, a good number of industry observers /
commentators, at least one journalist, and people from independent
organizations whose objective is to improve the state of the net.
Altogether about 30 people.
It was conducted under the Chatham House rule, so I am only
posting my impressions, and I don’t identify people and what
specific people said. […]
I came away convinced that the team working on Threads indeed
genuinely wants to make federation happen, and have it happen in a
“good” way. I did not get any sense whatsoever that any of the
people I interacted were executing any secret agenda, whether
embrace-and-extend, favoring Threads in some fashion or anything
like that. (Of course, that is a limited data point, but I thought
I convey it anyway.)