> To date they've done very little
Not true. You can now follow Adam Mosseri's Threads account from Mastodon.
And like you said they are committed to fully rolling it out this year.
Not true. You can now follow Adam Mosseri's Threads account from Mastodon.
And like you said they are committed to fully rolling it out this year.
But like I said, I sincerely do hope Threads follows through on their plan to federate. But it's just not correct to claim that they already have.
Supporting one user end to end is a huge milestone and the first step in rolling it out to the other hundreds of millions of users. Especially when Threads isn't a standalone platform but is built on top of Instagram which means we could see it integrated with ActivityPub as well.
The fact that Meta cares about ActivityPub at all is a huge win for open, interoperable standards.
So launch in July 2023, handful of accounts have AP support in November-ish 2023, full AP support end of 2024? I guess it's not nothing, they did have to bolt something entirely new on top of IG's infrastructure. But for a team that big, feels like we'd be seeing more if it was a true priority for them. Plus Threads leaning towards opt-in AP support which will only inhibit uptake (that was the last I heard, anyway).
I'd be shocked if Instagram ever went with ActivityPub, though.