Threads To Embrace The Fediverse by Adopting ActivityPub Sooner Rather Than Later‽
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I was under the impression that Threads by Instagram would embrace ActivityPub many months from now (either in October of 2023 or early 2024).
However Threads seems to indicate that they are working on making Meta’s newest social network compatible with the Fediverse.
ICYMI: We’re working toward making Threads compatible with ActivityPub, which means it would work with apps like Mastodon and WordPress. Think of it like email: You can write to anyone with an email address, because it’s a decentralized system. (Official Threads Account)
Threads links to an Instagram page in their thread (pun not intended) which elaborates on their next plans for the site.
What’s Next? Reach New Audiences
Many parts of Threads will feel familiar to anyone who loves Instagram: we want to create a positive, creative, vibrant place for sharing what matters, this time anchored in the written word. Starting soon, other parts of this app will feel very new. Our plan is to build Threads on the ActivityPub protocol – a set of decentralized standards for social networking. Soon, we will make Threads interoperable with other apps that also support the ActivityPub protocol, such as Mastodon and WordPress. Other services including Tumblr have shared plans to support the ActivityPub protocol in the future. (Instagram Creators)
Threads has constantly talked about Mastodon to the media, but now they are also talking about creators using Threads to follow blogs on WordPress & (in the future) Tumblr as well.
With traffic to Threads allegedly dying down, embracing ActivityPub sooner would be a smart way to keep their site relevant in the news, as well as encourage famous folks, brands, organizations, government institutions, etcetera, to connect their WordPress blogs to Meta’s microblogging site.
Threads also might also desire a major feature that distinguishes themselves from their arc nemesis, Twitter.
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