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Over the past six months, Meta has slowly begun to make good on its promise to make Threads compatible with the Fediverse: The app lets users share posts to Mastodon and other Activity Pub-enabled services, having launched on those services earlier this summer.
Now the thread continues to expand on those replies. Users who opt in to Fediverse sharing will now be able to see replies to other people’s posts. With this change, a new “Fediverse Replies” section will appear under any post that has been replied to from your Mastodon server or other federated accounts.
In practical terms, this means you’ll see more Fediverse content in threads. Previously, most users didn’t see many replies from Mastodon or other sites unless they had a particularly large following or their post was shared widely. Now, you can see all of those replies just by browsing the thread.
As with previous updates, support for other activity pub content on threads is still limited; users must do a Fediverse share to see replies from other apps. The feature is still listed as “beta,” with the statement that some replies may not be visible on the Meta-owned service. And threads don’t yet support replying to those replies, severely limiting your ability to interact with other Fediverse users. (In a follow-up, Meta engineer Peter Cottle said: (He added that functionality is his “top priority.”) But the update could motivate more users to open accounts on Fediverse, an important step for anyone hoping to bring it to the mainstream.
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