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   bignose (bignose@sw-development-is.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 08:22:57 JST bignose

   • jwz

   @evanprodromou

   Earlier you correctly warned that your sample set likely is not representative of Threads users as a whole, though. So, extrapolation to the general is likely not valid.

   As a counter example, @jwz found:
   > Of the 655 accounts I used to follow on Instagram, […] exactly ZERO can be followed from Mastodon dot social. If there's something they have to turn on to make it happen, zero of them have done so.

   https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/08/rumors-of-threads-dot-net-federation-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/

   So, extrapolate from that, and it's *zero*.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 08:22:56 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • jwz

     @bignose @evanprodromou @jwz absolutely. Another option is that @jwz wrote his testing code wrong and got zero results. Jamie, if I send you a bash script to run on a file with one username per line, would you try it again? Or do you feel pretty confident you got it right the first time?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 08:24:22 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • jwz

     @bignose @evanprodromou @jwz just read his post. He did it manually. I'd still be happy to help confirm.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 08:55:01 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • jwz

     @bignose @evanprodromou @jwz I'll just scrape his following list from IG, actually. Easier to double check!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 08:56:42 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • jwz

     @jwz @bignose @evanprodromou excellent. Sounds pretty reasonable. I've had problems in Mastodon search when an account hasn't been followed on that server before, but I'm sure you have too so it's probably not that.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 08:56:43 JST jwz

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @bignose @evanprodromou My technique was brute-force simple. Get the list of every Instagram account I followed. Convert those to [@]name[@]threads.net. 41% were not 404. Of all the rest, none succeeded at federating when I pasted them into the search field on mastodon.social. (Though I do follow one or two other threads accounts, such as POTUS, so it's not that they don't work at all on this instance.)

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 11:48:52 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • jwz

     @jwz @bignose @evanprodromou So, I scraped your following list on IG and found only two hits, @therealelvira and @whscullin , but they just enabled Fediverse sharing today. Even some of the people I expected to have it turned on, like @bradfitz@inuh.net and @textfiles didn't have it. By contrast, 22% of my followeds and 30% of my following on Threads have it turned on. So, very different uptake rate! Thanks for doing the analysis.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 11:49:53 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • jwz

     @jwz @bignose one last thing; you might like `toot`, the command-line tool for Mastodon.

     https://toot.bezdomni.net/