Doing things outside the walled garden is kinda hard, devs admit
Federation is not new – it's the concept that allows discrete email servers to exchange messages without the need for a central digital post office – but social networks mostly started life as private entities, so preferred to keep participants within their own virtual walls.
Meta's ActivityPub implementation will mean opted-in users' posts will be viewable on other ActivityPub-compliant servers. Meta software engineer Christopher Su and security engineer Simon Blackstein wrote that more integrations between Threads and the Fediverse are planned, but that building them is hard.
The pair detail the workarounds some services make to handle quote posts, and explain their choice to use one created by federated microblogging project Misskey to make it possible."In the future, we expect content to flow from the Fediverse into Threads. Federated Threads users will be able to see and engage with replies to their posts coming from other servers, or follow people on other Fediverse servers and engage with their content directly in Threads.
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