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Mosseri says Threads is working on an API.

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[–] scottmeme 29 points 1 year ago

100 points for things nobody asked for

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

It is still on Meta servers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

At the moment you can't even use the web UI without installing the official app so I am skeptical.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If it really starts supporting ActivityPub, you could start seeing Threads posts in a fediverse feed that also includes posts from Mastodon, Reddit alternative Lemmy, and any other platform that runs on the protocol.

Please no. The last thing Lemmy needs is a tsunami of Facebook normies. Instant Eternal September.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would argue meta is the only way mainstream content creator are willing to join fediverse, It won't be the worst thing to have more options, especially when feed curation in on our hand.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Just fediblock threads i already did it preemptively i did on my instance

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Be the same as Twitter/X and Reddit. Use the Microsoft Embrace-Extend-Extinguish approach. Get some nice third party clients using the API, realise you can't pump ads into them, block them and force people to use the official apps because everyone is now using the platform and can't go anywhere else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there someone using Threads?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. The original owner of the name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think this is nice in a time when social media companies have been actively killing third-party apps

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

take control of activitypub and forcibly remove Facebook from it