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Threads is adding Fediverse content to social feeds

It’s not full ActivityPub integration, but it’s… closer.

“I might want to subscribe to Ghost publications, or subscribe to different authors, so I have this dedicated place to catch up on my across-the-web content, separately from a Following feed or a For You feed.” Even internally at Meta, he says, there’s some debate about whether Threads wants to be a fully open social network or should just act as a repository for all that external content. This kind of easy discovery has long been one of the biggest challenges for Mastodon in particular, since people are distributed across so many separate servers, but Cottle says Threads can do something like universal fediverse search. That’s why Meta has been a bit slower in rolling out fediverse features, even as the Threads team has more aggressively shipped things like DMs,spoiler alerts, and links in bio.

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