Meta announced that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own. In addition, posts that originated through the Threads API, like those created via third-party apps and scheduling services, will now be syndicated to the fediverse.

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    4 months ago

    Note: You can’t interact with Threads accounts from Lemmy, but you can interact with Threads accounts from MBin (and maybe PieFed), except if your instance is defederated from them obviously

    There’s POTUS account for example @potus@threads.net

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        Not quite as good as Mbin. For example you can’t follow someone on mastodon from PieFed. They can follow you, though.

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        Because right now the Threads federation is still pretty one sided, the Fediverse users can reply to the Threads posts, but the Threads users can’t see the Fediverse posts, only replies

        And with how Lemmy works, you can’t reply to the microblogging accounts, you can’t reply to Mastodon’s posts neither, so you can’t get your replies federated

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          That doesn’t seem right. I remember responding to a few mastodon threads from lemmy and I was able to see my reply on the other end.

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          What happened to Kbin btw? I used to be on there since the start but the page has been broken since a while for me

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            It was run by one guy who had health issues. So it shut down. Mbin is the main fork now.

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            The owner of kbin.social (and creator of kbin incidentally) has been MIA for a few months now, so it’s presumed that it’s over. I haven’t heard of anything concrete regarding the fate of kbin.social or ernest though - unless someone has heard differently, it remains possible that ernest returns in a year or two and brings kbin.social back up.

            Edit: I thought that https://kbin.earth/ still existed as an instance still running ernest’s original flavour of kbin (as opposed to its sucessor mbin) but it turns out it has been moved to mbin as per the reply below.

            With that, I’m not sure if anyone is still on the original kbin codebase at this point.

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              Am I the only one who thinks that’s a bad choice? The whole point of the fediverse is that all the things are connected.

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                Lemmy is open source and so anyone who wants to add this functionality is free to do so.

                Considering who the original creators of Lemmy are and the controversy over lemmygrad.ml however, I’d say that we dodged a bullet, all things considered.

                If you want a thing that tries to integrate with everything, consider pyfedi - in addition to Lemmy and Mastodon they also have code to integrate with pixelfed and probably even more things (I’m still learning about all the integrations that it has).

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                  So I tried to search for pyfedi, and the only things I found are some repos. Not quite sure what to do with that. HOWEVER, a few different repos seemed to list piefed as the thing it do.

                  So is pyfedi the same as piefed.social ?

                  I am enjoying the layout of piefed. It’s quite tasty! I hope this is the thing that does the other thing.

                  But what if I transfer my Lemmy account to Piefed? Will I still be able to create communities on Lemmy.World? Or am I going to just end up with two different accounts, on two different sites, that do 97% the same thing?

                  Or am I just wrong all around, and pyfedi has nothing to do with piefed, and I’ve stumbled onto a different thing that does the thing that the other thing couldn’t do, but is still connected to, but not in the same way, but still uses the same services?

                  • So I tried to search for pyfedi, and the only things I found are some repos. Not quite sure what to do
                    with that. HOWEVER, a few different repos seemed to list piefed as the thing it do.
                    So is pyfedi the same as piefed.social ?

                    piefed.social is the flagship instance while pyfedi is the software. By analogy, lemmy.ml is the flagship instance of Lemmy, kbin.social was the flagship instance of the kbin software, and while it doesn’t offically have a flagship fedia.io is the largest instance to run the mbin software.

                    I am enjoying the layout of piefed. It’s quite tasty! I hope this is the thing that does the other thing.

                    Yes!

                    But what if I transfer my Lemmy account to Piefed? Will I still be able to create communities on Lemmy.World?

                    My understanding is that unfortunately, to be the owner of a community or magazine (such as !Fediverse@lemmy.world ) that’s local to given instance (lemmy.world here) your account would also have to be local.

                    Or am I going to just end up with two different accounts, on two different sites, that do 97% the same thing?

                    From what I understand, most folks pick one favoured instance as their primary one for that 97% - but create the local account to own the magazine/community as well as the rest of the 3%. (Note that you can add your primary account as a mod though, even if it’s not local - so you have to create the community on lemmy.world with your lemmy.world account, but then you can add your piefed.social account as a mod to that community and then manage the new lemmy.world community mostly from piefed.social.)

                    Or am I just wrong all around, and pyfedi has nothing to do with piefed, and I’ve stumbled onto a different thing that does the thing that the other thing couldn’t do, but is still connected to, but not in the same way, but still uses the same services?

                    What can I say? The fediverse is complicated. But in a good way.

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      Do regular Mastodon instances and clients play nicely with Threads?

      I’ve been on Mastodon for a while and never seen a Threads user.

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        On paper it should play well, it appeared as Mastodon would on my Mbin instance. A lot of Mastodon instances have preemptively defederated from Threads though, so you need to shop around.

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        Do regular Mastodon instances and clients play nicely with Threads?

        You can’t connect to Threads using a Mastodon client but you can follow select Threads accounts from the Mastodon instance your client is connected to. Threads is still in what is basically a public beta. That’s why there are currently no ads there either (but they were announced recently).

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        meta has not made using threads very easy for its users. only the technical or high visibility accounts seem to have cared to jump through the necessary hoops.

      • Fitik@fedia.ioOP
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        Yea, they play fine, I use Misskey fork as my main instance, and it even supports quotes

        Maybe your instance have defederated from them? Also the Fediverse sharing is opt-in in Threads, so like 95% or more Threads users haven’t turned it on, cause they have no idea it exists