Time to tag.

“Tags work a little differently than hashtags do on platforms like Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). When composing a Threads post, you start a tag by tapping the # symbol and then typing out your topic. But instead of being limited to just one word, you can type out a whole phrase (with spaces!) and add special characters, according to Mosseri. However, you can only make one tag per post.”

I wonder how the tags will work if they federate with ActivityPub.

  • @[email protected]English
    13•7 months ago

    So they forked mastodon and gutted the features and are now reimplementing them in a way that’s fundamentally incompatible with upstream? Sounds a lot like something Silicon Valley would do.

    • @[email protected]English
      25•7 months ago

      Threads does not appear to be a fork of Mastodon or anything else.

      It also doesn’t federate yet and I’m not convinced it’s actually going to, so I think posts about it might be off-topic for a community about the Fediverse.

      • @[email protected]English
        8•7 months ago

        I also think the federation promise was just all smoke and mirrors to let the European Union allow them to publish the app.

        I don’t think we will ever see proper federation on Threads, even though I’d surely like it.

        • @[email protected]English
          8•7 months ago

          I think it was probably as much to compete with Bluesky, which also says it will have federation (with its own protocol) Soontm as anything.

          If Bluesky actually starts federating, I think there’s a good chance Threads will.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•7 months ago

            Threads, however, has explicitly promised Mastodon integration, so it won’t use a proprietary protocol.

          • katy ✨English
            1•7 months ago

            really love bluesky i just hold they either do both protocols or make an activitypub bridge. i think that all the alternative networks working together is the best way to prevent post twitter special network splintering

        • @[email protected]English
          2•7 months ago

          For the EU the abilities to read posts without an account and delete a Threads account independently of the IG one was enough. Federation had nothing to do with it. Threads would not be able to launch without federation, had this been a mandate.

        • @[email protected]OPEnglish
          0•7 months ago

          Zuckerberg just posted this on Threads. Federation seems to be coming relatively soon.

          Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol. Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people. I’m pretty optimistic about this.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•7 months ago

      Truth Social is a Mastodon fork.

      Threads is just Instagram with text posts and a different representation of replies.

    • @onlinepersonaEnglish
      1•7 months ago

      Google and XMPP history is repeating.