{"id":41474,"date":"2023-12-15T13:36:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T18:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41474"},"modified":"2024-04-03T14:59:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T18:59:22","slug":"threads-in-eu-and-on-activitypub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/15\/threads-in-eu-and-on-activitypub\/","title":{"rendered":"Threads in EU and on ActivityPub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Porter<\/a> (via John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, is now available in the European Union, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced. “Today we’re opening Threads to more countries in Europe,” Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Threads<\/a>. The launch follows the service’s debut in the US and over 100 other countries<\/a> across the world, including the UK, in July 2023. But until now, Threads hasn’t been available to the 448 million people living in the EU, and the company has even blocked EU-based users from accessing the service via VPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To coincide with today’s launch, Meta is giving users in the region the ability to browse Threads without needing a profile<\/a>. Actually posting or interacting with content will still require an Instagram account, however.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Adam Mosseri<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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[…]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Via John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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When Threads launched this summer, with the stated intention of federating via ActivityPub, there were a lot of naysayers who thought it would never happen. But here we are.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It brings me no joy to report this, but unless I scrolled past one, there are no Mastodon clients in the top 200 free apps, even looking specifically within the “social networking” category, on either the App Store or Play Store. (Twitter\/X categorizes itself as “News”, not “Social”, as a sad crutch to place higher in a category with less competition.) Even Bluesky makes these lists (#80 on the App Store; #49 on Play Store).<\/p>\n

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Regular people do not want to use social networks without algorithmic feeds, and do not want to use social networks whose basic premise they do not understand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n