"Tags work a little differently than hashtags do on platforms like Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). When composing a Threads post, you start a tag by tapping the # symbol and then typing out your topic. But instead of being limited to just one word, you can type out a whole phrase (with spaces!) and add special characters, according to Mosseri. However, you can only make one tag per post."

I wonder how the tags will work if they federate with ActivityPub.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

So they forked mastodon and gutted the features and are now reimplementing them in a way that's fundamentally incompatible with upstream? Sounds a lot like something Silicon Valley would do.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Threads does not appear to be a fork of Mastodon or anything else.

It also doesn't federate yet and I'm not convinced it's actually going to, so I think posts about it might be off-topic for a community about the Fediverse.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I also think the federation promise was just all smoke and mirrors to let the European Union allow them to publish the app.

I don't think we will ever see proper federation on Threads, even though I'd surely like it.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think it was probably as much to compete with Bluesky, which also says it will have federation (with its own protocol) Soon^tm^ as anything.

If Bluesky actually starts federating, I think there's a good chance Threads will.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Threads, however, has explicitly promised Mastodon integration, so it won't use a proprietary protocol.

[–] SamXavia@kbin.run 1 points 11 months ago

What is really good for everyone already using the Fediverse as it doesn't mean as much work when it comes to bringing Threads & Mastodon compatibility. The multi-word tags are a cool feature but will have to looked at once Federated.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

really love bluesky i just hold they either do both protocols or make an activitypub bridge. i think that all the alternative networks working together is the best way to prevent post twitter special network splintering

[–] SamXavia@kbin.run 1 points 11 months ago

I'm sure if Bluesky doesn't create something the Fediverse will have someone create a bridge protocol opensource to allow for easy integration into these systems.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

For the EU the abilities to read posts without an account and delete a Threads account independently of the IG one was enough. Federation had nothing to do with it. Threads would not be able to launch without federation, had this been a mandate.

[–] clgoh@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Zuckerberg just posted this on Threads. Federation seems to be coming relatively soon.

Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol. Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people. I'm pretty optimistic about this.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 11 months ago

It's to good to be true, there's going to be a trick for sure

[–] SamXavia@kbin.run 1 points 11 months ago

As they haven't said they aren't coming to the Fediverse and if anything say they are still looking to Federate it's still on-topic as of the moment but yes it feels like they are kicking the can down the road or have lost it completely and just don't want to tell anyone yet.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Truth Social is a Mastodon fork.

Threads is just Instagram with text posts and a different representation of replies.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Google and XMPP history is repeating.