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.

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.

  • arudesalad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It took around a year for a solo dev (and a couple contributors) to develop a fully federated platform. Why is it taking one of the largest companies on the planet this long to make such tiny changes that are useless anyway.

    And why are they releasing it like this instead of releasing everything at once?

    • Not_mikey@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It is a different level of scale, mastodon has about 1 million users spread over a bunch of instances. Threads has over 200 million users on one instance. also due to the network nature of social media the amount of connections and messages sent through those connections can scale exponentially with the amount of users.