Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the 'fediverse' | TechCrunch
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Meta announced Wednesday that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own.

“Threads is deepening its ties to the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which powers services like X alternative Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipboard and other apps. On Wednesday, Meta announced that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own. In addition, posts that originated through the Threads API, like those created via third-party apps and scheduling services, will now be syndicated to the fediverse. The latter had previously been announced via an in-app message informing users that API posts would be shared to the fediverse starting on August 28.”

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
    99·
    1 year ago

    A is defederated from Threads, but federates with B. And B federates with Threads. Now Meta can cash out on your data via B.

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      423·
      1 year ago

      Now Meta can cash out on your data via B.

      Everything we’re posting is public, anyone can cash in on it regardless of who you defederate.

      • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
        914·
        1 year ago

        Everyone can break into my house regardless of having a key or not. I still don’t have my key delivered to them.

        • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          253·
          1 year ago

          Everyone can break into the park you visit and talk to people at

    • copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      52·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think that’s how it works and it would likely not be legal. By explicitly blocking Threads, you make a big statement about not wanting your instance’s posts to show up there. Also from a technical standpoint, I don’t think a “middle-man” instance will push posts from another instance to a third one. You’d have to explicitly scrape data that’s not available via the API. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

      • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
        42·
        1 year ago

        Threads has about 200 million monthly users, 33 million daily users. The fediverse has just under 1 million monthly users. Do you really think that 0.5% has any relevance to Meta?

        Do you really think they would care about those users when they extend and extinguish the Fediverse?

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
        11·
        1 year ago

        The 0.5% on fedi are more likely to be the technical users that actually produce usable content.

        How many thread users are bots or passive consumers? They may be good for serving ads to, but they’re not so food at retaining and attracting users