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Mark Zuckerberg say today that Meta has start test a feature of speech to show yarn posts on Mastodon and other ActivityPub protocol - bear networks .

“ attain Threads interoperable will give hoi polloi more choice over how they interact and it will aid content make more citizenry . I ’m pretty affirmative about this , ” Zuckerbergsaid in a post .

While this is an important step for Threads to be part of the federated social web , Zuckerberg did n’t cater any item on how the integrating might work just yet .

Hours after the announcement , multipleusersreportedthat they could follow Instagram head Adam Mosseri through various Mastodon clients . However , his post were not visible . Users on Mastodon could also look for Mosseri ’s duds profile by typing “ @mosseri@threads.net , ” so hopefully they would be able to look for other Threads profile in the future .

It ’s not open if the roadmap for thread ’ ActivityPub integration will lease you easy cross - berth between Mastodon ( or other ActivityPub - powered networks ) and thread or move your data around .

When Threads launched in July , Mosseri said the social web would n’t have integrationwith the fediverse at the launch . However , he emphasized that Meta kept on integrating its newest platform with the decentralised social web .

“ We ’re attached to ramp up support for ActivityPub , the communications protocol behind Mastodon , into this app . We were n’t able to finish it for launch given a turn of complications that add up along with a decentralised internet , but it ’s amount , ” he said at that sentence .

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In August , Threads launched a way for substance abuser toverify their profile on Mastodon . The troupe append “ rel = me ” links — a way to instal a kinship between two accounts by pointing links to each other .

Today ’s proclamation from Zuckerberg is the first material star sign of intent from Meta to make Threads part of the decentralised societal meshing scheme .