@BeAware@social.beaware.live Threads only pushes to the fediverse and doesn't take anything in right now so there is nothing to opt-in to for us currently. It's true they might not start asking even when this becomes bidirectional but not sure. I hope they won't make it opt-in tbh.
But when it comes to how it works now I don't see the difference between Threads and this Bluesky bridge. Just like you can run into posts from Threads without having followed any Threads account you can still run into posts from Bluesky here despite not having opted in to the Bridgy fed bridge.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live well to be fair many people might be shouting for threads to be opt-in if Meta had not chosen to make it so anyway and also the anti-threads energy was channeled more into demands of a complete fediblock
@tokyo_0@mas.to it seems like the quote post controls are probably something they've been coordinating with Mastodon, actually. I think it was @tchambers@indieweb.social I saw say first that a very similar feature is coming for Mastodon and having followed the quote post discussions in the issue queues for Mastodon a bit I know these kinds of controls were extensively discussed there as a requirement for adding QPs in the past.
@mackuba@martianbase.net what's your point? guessing this isn't that recent and I'm not sure 30% was a particularly unrealistic prediction considering most startups fail and we've already seen multiple twitter replacements fail too.
Good on Bluesky not having run out of money yet but I certainly don't think they've yet really found a good way to monetize or a big enough userbase so the clock is absolutely still ticking on that VC money requiring them to put up or shut it.
@mackuba@martianbase.net also, I'm sure you know @evan@cosocial.ca has a non-threads fediverse account too even though he happened to post that message to threads so there is no need to ping him on threads only.
@darnell@one.darnell.one not a great look if you don't want to criticize your allies I guess but I'd argue sweeping all their problems under the rug is not a great look either
That said, I think I might actually prefer it that way because it is another reason for people to come to this side of the fediverse instead of using Threads.
@FinchHaven@sfba.social@aral@mastodon.ar.al what on earth makes you say they are raking in shit tons of money? That doesn't sound too likely for a team with the grand total of two full-time deveopers (to be increased to three now) so do you have something to back that with?
@tokyo_0@mas.to I think as long as they are not federating with anything besides themselves (including a small number of extremely limited and tiny community-run services) the answer is easily no.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live what kind of negativity are you seeing and is there much of it? I've seen a weird comment by someone acting like threads is some exclusive club, disinterest because of the limited interaction (for now) and (legitimate) concerns about the inability to limit who can reply but being only on this side of the fediverse my exposure has obviously been limited since I only see posts from those who have actually enabled it.
@fromjason@mastodon.social based on info from maybe a week ago it is at least around 3k total now but that is still same order of magnitude and I doubt it has crossed 10k yet.
@tokyo_0@mas.to@3dcandy@mastodon.social I do believe blocking them has important effects beyond just stopping them from reading your toots. It creates some incentive for users to join a fediverse instances other than Threads if there is a reasonable amount of users that cannot be reached otherwise.
@tokyo_0@mas.to well he says they need it for server review... so that sounds like they just want an easy way to check the local timeline, this doesn't immediately strike me as an unreasonable ask for deciding on whether to federate with an instance. You're right though that if they want those to be the rules they should offer such a thing on Threads too...
@ramsey@phpc.social yeah it is mostly one-way for now. You do get notified of fediverse likes on Threads but not sure if it tells you who on the other side liked. You might have talked with 0xjessel through his mastodon account at @jessel@universeodon.com