Threads takes an important baby step toward true fediverse integration

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Threads takes an important baby step toward true fediverse integration
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Threads rolls out the ability to follow fediverse profiles from your Threads account, though it comes with limitations like not showing their posts in your feed.

You can now follow fediverse accounts on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced. Threads rolled out fediverse users’ likes and replies in a very limited way at first, and it’s the same here — fediverse posts won’t appear in your feeds, and you can only follow those accounts if they’ve interacted with a post on Threads.

“On web and android today , we’ll start linkifying Fediverse usernames in posts,” wrote Threads developer Peter Cottle among a series of posts about the new integration. Cottle added that your account will need to be federated and that the fediverse account must be “eligible to be followed.

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