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🪐 🪐 A BIG chunk of Fediverse functionality launches today! 🪐🪐

This has really helped me catch up on my Fediverse follows every day compared to before (when we had to visit individual profiles, or turn on new post notifications). I'm also really excited to follow news publications and other RSS-like use cases as well

See you on the open social web
#Fediverse Threads

RE: https://www.threads.com/@mosseri/post/DLAioD4JbyW

We don’t have a concrete timeline for account portability, but this is something that’s top of mind for us. Some of the most important work for the open social web is in interoperability though – the kind of functionality we announced today that 350M+ Threads users can now use daily!

This is where interop shines. It’s just very cool to me that our servers are speaking to 75% of Fediverse servers, and sending posts, likes, and replies back and forth over the Internet in a decentralized way

In addition to in-app education, we also published this neat Fediverse privacy guide for anyone to access that helps explain the concept as well:
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/guide/fediverse/

At the end of the day is a balancing act – getting concrete steps in the interop functionality while bringing users onboard who want to adopt early 🥳

It makes the most sense to encourage adoption when we have the full MVP with both outbound and inbound federation. This will be an exciting moment for creators like yourself and casual users alike.

In terms of education, we’re being thoughtful about how we bring people into the fediverse – both with consistent iconography throughout the app and easy information sheets that link to deeper articles about decentralization:
https://help.instagram.com/169559812696339

I feel the same way sometimes – nothing like a good fediverse reply that I want to respond to

We started by focusing on delivering content from Threads to the fediverse (outbound). Now that we’ve been bringing content into Threads from the fediverse (inbound), and have a pretty complete MVP there, a natural next step is to revisit more of that outbound functionality, including the ability to reply. It’s definitely top of mind for us to make this a full experience.

This milestone only includes the fediverse following feed and search functionality for now, but the eventual goal is to allow replying to fediverse posts and replies. We’ve been perfecting reply distribution in the For You feed since Threads launched, and we’re open to including replies in the fediverse feed if we find the right solution.

But just to be clear, you can *see* fediverse replies on any post today if they exist.

Nope, there’s no technical reason. It’s just that sometimes replies and reposts can clog up a feed, especially when there's duplicated content. Focusing on top-level replies allowed us to create a cleaner product experience, and that’s especially important as we bring the fediverse mainstream

Let's do it!