Threads Plans to Interoperate With Other Platforms in the Fediverse

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Verge:

On Friday, two days after Threads finally started publicly testing ActivityPub integration, Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared a thread on Threads detailing the company's plans for its continued integration with the fediverse. Right now, it's possible to follow a few Threads accounts (including Mosseri's) from other platforms, but Meta has much bigger plans for Threads interoperability that Mosseri says will take 'the better part of a year' to realize...

Mosseri says that the Threads team wants to make it so the option to follow a Threads account on other platforms is available to 'all public accounts on Threads, not just a handful of testers.' The Threads team wants to let replies from other platforms show up inside of Threads.
According to the article, Threads is also planning to support the ability to follow non-Threads fediverse accounts — and even taking that openness in the other direction.
'Eventually, it should also be possible to enable creators to leave Threads and take their followers with them to another app / server,' Mosseri writes.

Flipboard and Wordpress already allow ActivityPub integration, according to NBC News. They estimate there's 11 million users of the Fediverse now, 'the vast majority of them on Mastodon.'

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