Gregory's ServerWe're a long way from anything like this happening, but, man, seeing Threads profiles light up here conjures a potential future where you might follow Instagram, TikTok, maybe even YouTube accounts and more right from Ivory. How much better could it be to be able to repost or quote-post the /original source item/ instead of a link to some external site every time. ActivityPub all the things!
Steve Troughton-Smith
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Arnoid
@stroughtonsmith @bradr3d @mosseri@threads.net they just started testing publicly it 12 hours ago.
Charlie Fish
@stroughtonsmith THIS. Just wish @Mastodon better supported quote posts. I think it’s on their roadmap tho.
Machiel
@stroughtonsmith yeah.. I don’t see it. This is a Meta stunt to create come goodwill. Nothing more.
Jonathan LaCour
@stroughtonsmith For us OG “open web” people, the prospect of ActivityPub actually becoming what we all hoped is incredible. It may actually happen.
Jimmy Little
@stroughtonsmith 1000% agree except for the Ivory part. I’m more of a @MonaApp guy. But that’s the beauty of federation, use whatever app you want! 
Rowan Johnson
@stroughtonsmith surely this is part of Meta’s play with Threads? They lost a big chunk of potential users to TikTok and Snapchat, and of course lots of people have moved from Facebook to Instagram. They’ve seen social media migration patterns, and I bet they’re partly doing this to keep existing users on their apps for longer. If you can access whatever the fun new thing is from the app you’re already using, you’re not going to leave that app, right?
Martin Porcheron
@stroughtonsmith it feels like we might finally get back to (and improve upon) Google Reader |
@stroughtonsmith there’s more profiles than @mosseri ?