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   Ricard Torres (ricard@ricard.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 02:02:06 JST Ricard Torres

   What's the status of Threads federating? :mastodon:

   Haven't read from this for a few months 🤔

   Is it still opt-in for them? Meaning, we'll probably never be able to follow those unaware of the switch?

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 02:05:59 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @ricard they now allow "replies".

     I put it in quotes because it's not how Fediverse does replies, aka not how replies work on every other platform.

     1. It has to reply to a post that already exists on Threads. You can't just make a post and tag someone if it's not replying.

     2. You cannot mention more than one user.

     3. The reply is private on Threads, only the mentioned user will be able to see it.

     They know it's not right and did it anyway. I replied to a devs post about it where they didn't mention these flaws and they liked my comment.🤦♂️

     I'm VERY skeptical that they'll ever federate fully like they should. It's a marketing tactic to gain users and then eventually they'll say "it doesn't look like Fediverse is what people want right now" and turn it off...

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     Ricard Torres (ricard@ricard.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:00:54 JST Ricard Torres

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     • BeAware :fediverse:

     @BeAware Dissapointed. Thank you for the lengthy update.

     I guess I should have known better they would never let us consume their content for free.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:51:19 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     • vetehinen

     @vetehinen @ricard sure, it's nice that we can see some of their stuff, but the point of the Fediverse is communication. SOCIAL Media isn't social in one way communication...

     Furthermore, I don't want to be talked *at* rather than being talked *to*...

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     vetehinen@lethallava.land's status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:51:20 JST vetehinen

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     • BeAware :fediverse:

     @BeAware@social.beaware.live @ricard@ricard.social on the bright side it seems to me like the number of accounts that have it enabled has grown well. Entirely anecdotal but I just seem to find more journalists and others to follow from there than ever.
     
     I do remain just as sceptical about their intentions unless this feature becomes popular enough for them to think twice before killing it at some point.