Did Federation just work through the power of friendship and ActivityPub? Or did you have to do any extra work to make the connections go? Of you learned any lessons in getting this to interop, it would be amazing to hear what you did.
@dansup Absolutely wild! Though it's kinda jarring to have the usernames end in @/www.threads.net and I hope they make it just threads.net in the future.
@dansup Thats awesome news. Thank you for this info.
Hopefully it means that there’s not a “Threads dialect” of ActivityPub, and if I can communicate with PixelFed I shouldn’t be too far away from talking to Threads, too.
@nathanu I'm not sure I'm gonna go that far, but I am disappointed, and would appreciate some transparency as to what changed @dansup's mind, and if there's a possibility of reconsidering based on Facebook's lax moderation practices toward bigoted content.
@graue@dansup yea, I'm going to either close my account or change instances if pixelfed.social is going to help meta 'embrace extend and extinguish' the fediverse.
@dansup Thanks for clarifying. I definitely do remember you creating a list on FediDb.org of all the servers that had signed the FediPact, and pixelfed.social being one of the biggest servers on that list. The pact says, "i hereby agree to block any instances owned by meta should they pop up on the fediverse." https://fedipact.online/
So this is a change of position, and one I personally don't agree with, but that is your prerogative. @nathanu
@dansup When threads accounts interact with Pixelfed accounts, is there data leakage? How can I protect my data or how can I prevent Meta from profiting from my activities?