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WHAT?! 😮

#Threads just took a page out of #Bluesky’s book and implemented a custom feeds feature.

So basically, Threads now has Bluesky’s major selling point—which is choose-your-own-algorithm.

Man, I wish Threads would open source this feature so other #ActivityPub-enabled software could take advantage of this. But maybe someone else coughMastodoncough could make this happen.

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in reply to Ben Ramsey

@ramsey Okay, let me put it another way. I wish Threads was open source. Full stop.

But failing that, publish how the details on how this works with #ActivityPub. That is, if it works with ActivityPub.

in reply to Chris Trottier

don't bother, I was thinking back to when I tried it on your server - I'm thinking of a feature I heard about but never really tried (& can't remember the name of - Beacons, maybe?), so I'm sure I didn't properly understand what it did.
in reply to FeralRobots

@FeralRobots Yes, it was basically keyword tracking on steroids. It’s quite nice but also resource intensive and therefore expensive to run.

That feature was a big reason firefish.social struggled to run.

in reply to Chris Trottier

who really cares about Threads though. As I said in another thread few days ago, everybody who wanted to leave Twitter already did that for Mastodon in previous waves and do that for Bluesky in current wave.
in reply to 41402

@a1ba #Threads has 100M daily active users which is more than #Bluesky’s entire userbase.
in reply to Chris Trottier

do they told this themselves? They aren't reliable source about their own traffic, you know what I mean?

I haven't seen Threads having any presense on fedi, and it was supposed to be federated. If there is anybody using it, we would definitely see at least _some_ traffic coming from it.

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in reply to 41402

@a1ba I definitely receive posts from #Threads on my server, and even follow a few folks to boot.

Now unfortunately, I’m not sure if my comments get seen on #Threads.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I haven’t used Friendica in awhile. Is that a choose-your-own-algorithm feed?
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