It isn’t that surprising but it is somewhat surprising.
fediverse, decentralized group of social media platforms in which each independent platform can interact freely with any other platform that is part of the group.
Great that they have an article on it, though their formatting the start of each article like a dictionary entry is a bit odd compared to Wikipedia.
If it were a Wikipedia article, it would probably need some copyediting to give it a more encyclopedic tone along with in-line citations.
Tbh I never understood the Lemmy users can interact with all other platforms that share the same protocol.
It’s not like I can view a Mastodon user’s history on Lemny, right?
Lemmy and history, no. On Lemmy you can see comments from Mastodon and posts (toot with a Lemmy community pinged inside. Which is rarely done but happens). But not the toots themselves
Piefed now allows to directly follow accounts (similar to Mastodon, Friendica, etc) and you can start getting the new toots after following an account https://piefed.zip/c/microblogsIt’s not like I can view a Mastodon user’s history on Lemny, right?
afaik you can
how?
ehh… just tested and it doesn’t seem to work… somehow i remembered it working but maybe i was mistaken
sorry for the misinformation
Meta’s Threads is also working toward ActivityPub compatibility, which would significantly expand the fediverse user base.
Um… fuck no, please and thank you!
The bad news is: you can already follow accounts bidirectionally between Threads and Mastodon. The good news is: Meta did the bare minimum and seems to have stopped development.
Also, Threads has introduced extremely strict rules for servers that want to federate.
Entire Fediverse server applications are incapable of following all these rules, either technologically or by concept.
For example, IIRC, Threads demanded a full public timeline. Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte do have that feature in code. But it’s intentionally turned off server-wide by default, and there’s a very good reason for this and for just about no serious admins of public servers ever turning it on.
Threads has introduced extremely strict rules for servers that want to federate.
That’s hilarious, considering just as soon as this whole Threads fediverse integration project was announced, a whole bunch of prominent fediverse hosts joined up and blocked them en masse. Like, fuck it, we’re not talking to Facebook, nope nope nope. (Turbo Based.) (Check your Mastodon instance. Chances are they’re still blocking threads.net.)
