> Starting today, if you’ve turned on fediverse sharing in Threads, there will be a new section at the top of your Following feed that takes you to a list of posts from folks you follow on Mastodon, Flipboard, or wherever else you’ve connected your Threads account.
Oh, so not real important. I follow some Threads accounts on Mastodon, but very few have clicked the button to enable that. I've even asked professional organizations to do that and they refused. Mark Cuban complains on Bluesky about their dwindling user base, but he refuses to bridge his account.
Explains the mastodon.social T&C agreement update this morning.
I honestly thought it was talking about the IoT-standard Thread and was seriously confused about how this was supposed to make sense.
I had completely forgotten Facebook’s Threads even existed. I can’t see this being enough to resurrect any momentum?
It brings into question, does the concept of a Fediverse subvert having a variety of communities with different cultures?
Imagine putting the Meta/Twitter/Reddit world behind you, posting on Bluesky/Mastodon, and then your content is showing up on Threads next to influencer garbage, AI slop, culture wars, crypto spam, pillow ads.
And just as bad or worse, content from those places flooding your parachute community. Those sites function best now as quarantine.
Embrace, extend, extinguish. No doubt.
Put a license that charges for the content when taken by a commercial platform with over 1000 employees. Send them a bill at the end if the year.
…so does this mean Meta is receiving my own copyrighted data from my server and storing it on their own servers for the benefit of their platform and apps?
Sounds like redistribution and perhaps public performance of copyrighted content without a license.
Other comments here (so far) don't seem super happy with this, but I can't help think this is a good thing primarily because of this:
"The fediverse feed isn’t algorithmically ranked, or subject to any of Threads’ rules or moderation; it’s just a reverse-chronological feed of stuff you follow."
That's great! Any step we can take away from ultra-algorithimically-optimized feeds, the better, I think. Normalize reverse-chronological feeds again.