A little bird told me that when #Threads will be totally into #ActivityPub then #Mastodon will mysteriously lose the ability to block entire domains/servers... 🐦
@stux Serious question since #Threads is potentially looking into this: if they integrated into AP the ability to run ads on servers as a way to generate money to maintain said server, would you enable them? And based on your experience with other admins, do you think they would?
Background: Meta is thinking of ways to monetize the Fediverse by supporting servers running ads and supporting micro-transactions (this is speculation as of now, re: what’s Meta’s interest in the Fediverse?)
No shocker - I hate the way it incorporates with the #fediverse as a whole and, at least currently, feels like it's working in (ish) bad faith.. that may change, but for now they are simply using us as potential eyeballs to boost their engagement numbers (esp for their "big accounts")
BUT...
From my experience, it beats the absolute pants off of #BlueSky in terms of actual "topic" interaction
Is anyone aware of a bot that counting the number of federated #Threads accounts? Just curious about the #Fediverse uptake by Threads users. Out of their puported hundred million users, I would anectdotally guess about 1000 users have voluntarily federated, but maybe you know better than me?
Question for the people! -- What platforms on the Fediverse offer the best content discovery capabilities? Services like Flipboard and Threads are integrated into the Fediverse now, we should be getting a lot of contents, but when I search for specific topics, the results are still really sparse. #fediverse#lemmy#mastodon#threads#flipboard
I believe Flipboard will prove to be a counterweight to Threads and a prime location for news & pundits (as #Meta does not really desire the latter two on their platforms).
People—especially journalists—complain that Threads is bad for breaking news because the algorithm privileges older posts. Sometimes this privileging gets screwy (e.g., it's May 6 and I'm seeing tons of May 4 Star Wars posts), but in general I think the idea that a platform for online conversations incentivizing discussion of evergreen topics and disincentivizing immediacy is interesting, and a worthwhile experiment.
@aaronrosspowell@arossp It should be user choice what the algorithm surfaces: how much recency, what topics, etc. and they probably are making it towards that gradually. I read that #Threads is working on feeds feature, a lot like in Bluesky I think.
"Quote and reply controls appear to be bundled together in a single dropdown menu, where users can open the conversation to “Anyone,” or limit it to “Profiles you follow” or “Mentioned only.”"
A lot of people have insisted #Meta isn't getting involved with the #Fediverse to embrace, extend and extinguish it...
... but even before fully implementing Fediverse interoperability in #Threads they're already talking openly about changing its protocols to add features like monetization. 🤔
Text in a screenshot reads as follows: McCue riffed on the idea that fediverse users could become creators where some of their content became available to subscribers only, similar to how Patreon works. For instance, fediverse advocate and co-editor of ActivityPub Evan Prodromou created a paid Mastodon account (@evanplus) that users could subscribe to for $5 per month to gain access. If he’s on board with paid content, surely others would follow. Cottle agreed that the model could work with the fediverse, too. He additionally suggested there are ways the fediverse could monetize beyond donations, which is what often powers various efforts today, like Mastodon. Cottle said someone might even make a fediverse experience that consumers would pay for, the way some fediverse client apps are paid today.
And aware, no doubt, that quote posts are a divisive, hot-button issue, they're already building into #Threads not only quote post functionality but more refined controls for it than I know of anywhere in the #Fediverse — a feature bound to attract attention and make people consider choosing Threads in preference to other Fediverse software that doesn't offer the same functionality.
😂 That was odd! When I mentioned @darnell on my #WordPress blog, it pinged my #Flipboard account on my iPhone even though #ActivityPub is not yet activated (I received a push notification, which later revealed nothing 😆).
Over on #Threads, my "Following" feed does consistently have more things in it that are interesting to me than my "For you" feed.
I've been observing this for a few weeks now, and it's consistent.
Seem the cost function might be optimizing for something other than what I like? Or is the signal not good enough because I don't "like" or such enough?
#threads is now properly working with #convocasa - I did not do anything so must have been something in their side. Thanks @paul for debugging back then though.
I have been wondering around all the alternatives (at least the most popular ones) of the social network formerly known as #Twitter now #X, here there is a summary of my experience on each of them. #threads#bluesky#twitter#X#mastodon#fediverse
#Threads is probably the closest one in terms of relevant people to follow, but it has a poorly executed main page, "for you" content is preferred over people you are actually following. The UI is bases on tabs, you tap on one menu/feature etc. in order to switch to the tab you are actually interested in (followers/following, for you/following timeline and so on).
Basically you will find a lot of the people you followed on twitter but the user experience is not polished enough.
If you are a #Threads user aged 18+ with a public profile, you can choose to share your posts to other #ActivityPub-compliant servers. Read more on how we're continuing to integrate Threads into the fediverse, our technical challenges and the solutions we've uncovered along the way. Read more: https://bit.ly/4ba3esO https://bit.ly/4ba3esO