Threads

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Promises made, promises kept.

Threads post as seen from a mastodon account

When Mastodon Met Threads 🐘➕🧵🟰❓

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

It has started: Mark Zuckerberg announced social network Threads will be starting its activity pub interoperability testing now. 🔗 I have been saying for a very long while now that ActivityPub as a protocol and within it Mastodon as the flagship app need to separate themselves from the fringe in order to gain more traction and usage. Understand that ActivityPub itself is a protocol not unlike IMAP and HTTP under the W3C.

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Vergecast: Musings on POSSE, SNS and Indieweb vs ActivityPub

Monday, October 23, 2023

My whole presence in the #fediverse is predicated on POSSE (and PESO) principles along with federated posting and SNS. I'm a semi-active part of the Indieweb community where this grassroots methodology sprang forth. It's one of "build your own website and have others comment on it -- that's the network right there" simplicity. Just like email is still the most universal messaging app, websites are still the least silo'd SNS app.

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