Check out @ba6897a9 demo some of our most recent work on supporting the ActivityPub protocol, which will allow people to follow Threads accounts from other apps (without needing the Threads app or an account) and down the road, people on Threads to follow people from those other apps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGEVy-CjBBg
Threads Update 🔔🧵
We’ve started a limited test of a heavily requested feature: the ability to save posts on Threads. Bookmark your favorite posts and revisit them later, just like you can on Instagram.
What other features would you like to see on Threads? Reply with your thoughts!
Fediverse update thread 🔔🧵
For those of you who don't know, @Threads is being built on the ActivityPub protocol, which means that it will be interoperable with other apps/servers like Mastodon over time. This week we took a small, but important, step by allowing people in the Fediverse, who don't use Threads or even have an Instagram account, to follow my Threads account as well as a few others. Content is starting to flow from Threads to the Fediverse.
We are working to make this option available to all public accounts on Threads, not just a handful of testers. We're starting small to make sure we have time to work through all the challenges, as our systems historically have been not been designed with this use case in mind.
Second, threads posted by me and a few members of the Threads team will be available on other fediverse platforms like Mastodon starting this week. This test is a small but meaningful step towards making Threads interoperable with other apps using ActivityPub – we’re committed to doing this so that people can find community and engage with the content most relevant to them, no matter what app they use.
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