Threads Expands Fediverse Beta, Letting Users See Replies (and Likes) on Other Fediverse Sites like Mastodon

Threads will now let people like and see replies to their Threads posts that appear on other federated social media platforms, the company announced on Tuesday.

Previously, if you made a post on Threads that was syndicated to another platform like Mastodon, you wouldn’t be able to see responses to that post while still inside Threads. That meant you’d have to bounce back and forth between the platforms to stay up-to-date on replies… [I]n a screenshot, Meta notes that you can’t reply to replies “yet,” so it sounds like that feature will arrive in the future.
“Threads is Meta’s first app built to be compatible with the fediverse…” according to a Meta blog post. “Our vision is that people using other fediverse-compatible servers will be able to follow and interact with people on Threads without having a Threads profile, and vice versa, connecting communities…” [If you turn on “sharing”…] “Developers can build new types of features and user experiences that can easily plug into other open social networks, accelerating the pace of innovation and experimentation.”

And this week Instagram/Threads top executive Adam Mosseri posted that Threads is “also expanding the availability of the fediverse beta experience to more than 100 countries, and hope to roll it out everywhere soon.”

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