I can’t figure out how to view a threads user profil in lemmy.world and I’m starting to wondering if this is not a problem of compatibility with lemmy. Maybe I should try again from the twittoverse…
I don’t think it can federate with Lemmy. At least for now.
It’s a different style of social network, like Mastodon.
You can access toots from Lemmy as long as the OP mention the community as a user. For example “Hello world, I’m posting on @[email protected]”. But that would mean we lemmings could only access content a threads user meant to send to Lemmy.
i subscribed to a few people from my instance running mbin. i think the issue might be that the threads implementation is largely the ‘microblog’ portion of activitypub which lemmy does not implement.
If you say so. I don’t host so I don’t have a technical view of the issues but I did see your picture just now from my sharkey account.
Edit : Oh… This is not the [email protected] post 🤦That would mean I need to use my Instagram account to test the fediversion with Threads… That’s too bad.
it was one of the main reasons i did not choose the lemmy platform. i wanted something that had already implemented both channels.
of course, the microblog/tweet section is fairly weak on mbin but it is in active development and works well enough to follow people/respond/etc.
Is it a bit like kbin where you have on oneself side community-like discussion and on another side microblog broadcasted to whoever wanna read it? Or is it a mix of these two format?
it is very kbin-like as the fork was fairly recent, and not a lot has been modified.
I have, on mastodon. Right now it’s fine, but it’s just a few key people I sub to, like potus. There’s no 2 way communication though, and it’s opt in only, so it feels like bot posts here on Lemmy. Until I can reply to people it’s kind of just a novelty.
I have been using it as a “dip your toes into the fediverse” for family who don’t want to fully join though. “Ehhh idk about mastodon”. “Well, just enable federation of your threads account, then at least I can follow you” “You can?”
Have you seen many family members switch to Threads? Mine are sticking to the tried and true Facebook. I would have a Sisyphean battle to get them to switch to Threads, let alone Mastodon.
A few. I have just 2 that have moved to the fediverse (very hesitantly), and a few activated threads but mostly out of “I don’t want to be on twitter anymore”. Not even trying with my older family members, although I have switched my tune to “here are my accounts if you want to follow me”, welcoming them to follow, but only on the accounts I’m on.
Props to you for getting a few to migrate over. Beyond the confusion that comes with federated media sign-up, Lemmy is definitely facing the chicken-or-egg problem. To get people to joi, it needs more substantial, diverse content. But to have that content, it needs a larger user base.
Yeah only a couple, and they already hated corporate social media and are fairly socially concious. I talked with them a bit, asked what their favorite style was, one preferred twitter and the other Insta. So, set one up on mastodon and the other on pixelfed, and just sent them direct links to servers to sign up. They can always move, but essentially figured they could just get set up that way and see how it goes.
So, if I choose someone from threads and tried to write to them, they won’t receive my message?
Akaik that is correct, it’s purely one way for now
Can confirm. It’s a one-way integration.
