Notices by Chris Messina (chrismessina@mastodon.xyz)

Harvard Business Review identifies AI generated editorial images in its print magazine.

It appears that Threads is working on a Communities feature called "Loop", which might be similar to subreddits or X Communities.

All I can tell is that you'll be able to Join and Leave. 🤷🏻♂️

This is new as of Threads v352.0.0.

#NewThreads

@samsethi @_elena @tchambers @dave @mike @evan @js @james @adam Now you need to build last.fm for arbitrary fediverse activities! :)

Replies from the Fediverse can now be read on Threads!!

/cc @samsethi

I don't care what anyone says. It's awesome to see fediverse replies appear on a Meta property.

Considering Threads isn't even a year old, this is enormous progress over anything Twitter ever did.

Jack claims that "Twitter should have been a protocol", but here we're seeing #ActivityPub interop being achieved as we live in breathe.

Threads just enabled bi-directional commenting with the fediverse.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185226/meta-threads-fediverse-likes-replies

#NewThreads

Hatching some plans with the man, the myth, the legend... @Gargron!

Lots of great stuff in the works for the open, social web in 2024 and beyond!

This is the first ad for Mastodon I've seen in the wild — on @Techmeme. Baby's growing up!

https://www.techmeme.com/

An eclipse AND the Threads API? On the same day?! Praise be!

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads

Great... moderated lecture from @mala with @mmasnick on #CognitiveLiberty as relates to the animating purpose behind the pursuit of decentralization.

We do not decentralize simply to decenter, but instead to preserve the muscle that affords us choice, agency, and self-sovereignty when we get lazy through centralization and (1/2)

Some number of Mastodon instances plan or are blocking Threads, but Threads also reserves the right to not federate with everyone.

Here's its current policy:

https://help.instagram.com/914046486923176/

#ThreadsFederates

It's happening!!

https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77/?igshid==

#ActivityPub #fediverse

I appreciate @pcottle's entreaty to the attendees of the #FediForum to engage with the Threads team genuinely.

Meta/Facebook have a mixed track record when it comes to open formats/standards (fool me once, etc etc); but at the same time, ushering in 130M potential new users to an open, social web is also an opportunity not to be dismissed out of hand.

I am optimistic that the current team is showing up with good intent and I intend to reflect that.

#DiSo #ActivityPub

Bluesky has open sourced its collaborative moderation tool called Ozone and will let users run their own independent moderation services later this week.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/ozone-ui

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderation

Happy to be the 2500th backer of @Iconfactory's #ProjectTapestry!

Learn more: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry?ref=project_mastodon

https://iconfactory.world/@Iconfactory/111930949420985066

more modest approach would have enabled us to participate in the space with considerably greater agility. The actions we’re taking today will make this strategic correction, working through a much smaller team to participate in the Mastodon ecosystem and more rapidly bring smaller experiments to people that choose to live on the mozilla.social instance."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/?guccounter=1 (2/2)

RIP mozilla.social?

"Scaling back investment mozilla.social: With mozilla.social, we made a big bet in 2023 to build a safer, better social media experience, based on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Our initial approach was based on a belief that Mozilla needed to quickly reach large scale in order to effectively shape the future of social media. It was a noble idea but one we struggled to execute. While we resourced mozilla.social heavily to pursue this ambitious idea, in retrospect a (1/2)

It appears that social web/fediverse compatible web mentions are being worked on over on Threads.

https://www.threads.net/@chris/post/C1JAcRLL0lc/

/cc @mike@mike@flipboard.social

Perhaps the best part of this interview (so far!) is that @Gargron says he prefers the phrase "social web" over fediverse. LET'S DO IT!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Oc1sz7K9L3NjeDvLotkuH?si=eE8pdpUvR06qY2JA9U1SPg&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A0X00HNuKr8PuhZdpjkPwUT&t=712

#DiSo #ActivityPub

From: @Gargron
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111616761510320943

Very interesting listen considering that what @dansup is suggesting for the social web, Meta is doing between Threads, Instagram, and Facebook.

@photomatt 's suggestion to provide "adjustments" when sharing (intentionally) to other social contexts is worth considering given the reaction many are having to their Threads content appear on Facebook.

From: @davidpierce
https://mastodon.social/@davidpierce/111279080485702562