Users can link accounts to fediverse through Threads’ open beta
A Fediverse integration beta version of Threads is set to be available to users in the US, Canada, and Japan.
Meta posted the update on its blog on Thursday.
Users with public profiles who are at least 18 years old can now participate in Meta’s test programme for sharing Threads accounts with the fediverse, the company stated on Thursday.
Turning on the feature would let you see and cross-post likes from other federated platforms, such as Mastodon, as revealed by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The business had earlier declared in December that it was testing the feature on Mastodon and other networks that supported the ActivityPub protocol.
“One way to think about the fediverse is to compare it to email.
“You can send an email from a Gmail account to a Yahoo account, for example, because those services support the same protocols.
“Similarly, in the fediverse you can connect with people who use different social networking services that are built on the same protocol, removing the silos that confine people and their followers to any single platform.
“But unlike email, your Fediverse conversations and profile are public and can be shared across servers,” Meta posted while explaining Fediverse.
Go to account settings and allow Fediverse sharing if you would like to participate in the Threads Fediverse beta programme.
However, there are still certain restrictions. Users are now unable to access answers and following from the fediverse in the beta.
Meta is also unable to guarantee that removing a federated post from Threads would result in its removal from the other platforms where it was shared.
“We’re sharing how we’re continuing to integrate Threads with the fediverse, the technical challenges, the solutions we’ve come up with along the way, and what’s next as we move toward making Threads fully interoperable,” Meta posted.
At the FediForum conference earlier this week, Peter Cottle of Meta provided a demonstration of the fediverse integration.