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Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It’s funny how “mastodon is too complicated” stops when the instance they pick is Threads.

🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People who say that are generally talking about the signup where you have to pick an instance. And then there's the worry over which other servers yours federates with. If you isolate your attention to a single instance, then all those worries go away.

The same already happens on the fediverse in regards to mastodon itself. A lot of people discuss the fediverse almost wholly in terms of mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also mastodon.social the flagship instance really kind of sucks. It has strict rate limiting and poor moderation (gotten lots of follows and follow requests from gross people on there. Also means it'll usually be Limited by other servers or blocked by their users.

So doesn't really help with the idea that all of Mastodon isn't like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It also doesn't work with a VPN.

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

I think it might depend on what VPN you use, I was able to use it from VPNs and Tor (Tor is kind of slow though). On Tor though it very much struggled to load images and the requests would take longer.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

threads only has one instance

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But now it’s one of hundreds you could pick to participate in ActivityPub/Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

you don’t need to pick instance to join threads

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

you don't need pick instance step to join mastodon.social

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

you have to pick mastodon.social out of all mastodon instances to join

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I have to pick mastodon.social to join 😵‍💫