Discussion
Consider it this way:
Threads is an ActivityPub installation with most posts running in local-only mode: federated only within the Threads 'instance' itself.
And you can opt-in to performing full-federation.
And inexplicably, every 30 days they warn you that you are fully federated, rather than running in local-only (unfederated) mode.
@oli I suspect it's not possible to do it at all.
That's going to be a fun blog post. Go back to the origins of people talking about what a great thing it was for Meta to come to ActivityPub, and all the predictions thereof, versus what they actually did.
@oli I'm feeling pretty good about my prediction:
"As Rochko and cis white male admins of large Mastodon instances who haven't prioritized dealing with this and other issues cozy up to Meta, it'll create spaces for others in anti-Meta part of the Fediverse – and their relative lack of power in comparison to Meta will open up space in the pro-Meta region. Mastodon forks, apps and other fediverse platforms continue to innovate, but mainline Mastodon has had challenges keeping pace – and important community contributions still haven't integrated into the mainline code. And Mastodon's dominance has made it a challenge for forks and other Twitter-like implementations to get traction. That's already starting to change, and Meta's arrival will accelerate these changes."
No one seems more disillusioned with that than Gargron.
Install bonfire.cafe
Get the full app experience
Yep. They really revolutionized the space alright. All those Threads users, able to effortlessly migrate off of Threads and into the fedi--
Wait, I'm just hearing that never actually happened. Huh.