We spoke with a product manager at Meta to learn how the company plans to bring interoperability to Threads in the coming months. It faces both technical and cultural challenges.

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]English
    3•11 months ago

    Oh, be assured that threads will one day defederate and build a wall so you can’t access their content anymore. The Fediverse need to have a critical mass of users to survive when it happens, but if the features threads offers are too compelling and the majority of the new accounts are made in there then the Fediverse is screwed.

    • FaceDeer
      2•11 months ago

      Oh, be assured that threads will one day defederate and build a wall so you can’t access their content anymore.

      Isn’t that already the case? The Fediverse is doing fine under current circumstances.

    • originalucifer
      1•11 months ago

      so youve confirmed that i have nothing to fear from this. thank you

      i will be calling this the ‘feature envy’ argument henceforth