Threads’ fediverse beta opens to share your posts on Mastodon, too

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Threads is rolling retired a beta of its fediverse integration successful the US, Canada, and Japan. In a station connected Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that toggling connected the diagnostic volition fto you cross-post and presumption likes from different federated platforms, similar Mastodon.

Threads previewed its fediverse integration earlier this week during the FediForum. As outlined connected its enactment page, Meta says that you indispensable person a nationalist relationship to crook connected fediverse sharing, which volition let users connected different servers to “search for and travel your profile, presumption your posts, interact with your content, and stock your contented to anyone connected oregon disconnected their server.”

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There are inactive a fewer limitations, though. The beta presently doesn’t fto users presumption replies and follows from the fediverse, for example. Meta besides can’t committedness that erstwhile you delete a federated station connected Threads, it volition besides get deleted connected the different platforms it was shared on.

Still, it’s promising to spot Threads starting to get into the fediverse aft archetypal testing its ActivityPub integration past year. You can crook connected the feature by heading to your Threads relationship settings, selecting Fediverse sharing (Beta), and pursuing the instructions.