Meta is treading carefully, doing a phased implementation while continuing conversations with Fediverse leaders. This will give the company more time to iron out some of the integration kinks. “Do we adapt the protocol to be able to support this?” Lambert asks. “Or do we try to do some kind of interesting, unique implementation?” For example, Threads supports audio posts, a feature not currently supported within ActivityPub, so Meta is experimenting with “federating” a text transcription of the original post instead of the audio version.

It was never a good idea federating with Threads

  • @[email protected]
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    810 months ago

    How is audio different from other media types (e.g. images, videos, etc) that it isn’t / couldn’t be supported by activity pub?

    • Chris
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      810 months ago

      I don’t know. Mastodon already supports audio posts, how does that federate? Why can’t Threads do the same thing?

    • Uranium3006
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      710 months ago

      it’s EEE. want to see all of your friend’s posts? sign up for Threads by Meta today!

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      Pretty sure it’s not. Wired is just talking about the wrong thing. Currently threads voice posts federate fine.