this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2024
37 points (93.0% liked)

No Stupid Questions

36242 readers
1793 users here now

No such thing. Ask away!

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.



Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.

If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.



Credits

Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!

The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I use both Threads and Mastodon. However, I realized that sometimes (public) profiles on Threads don't show up on Mastodon and vice versa. I also realized that most comments made on Threads posts don't show up on Mastodon โ€“ that is, if the posts appear on Mastodon at all. The same is true the other way around. Why does this happen?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago

Short answer is no. But I figured maybe a more detailed answer could be nice as well.

They are gradually implementing ActivityPub integration, which would make them a part of the Fediverse. At least that's what they claim to be doing. I'll believe it when they're done.

They are implementing it in several steps. Be aware that this is subject to change - it could be that it has changed already since last time I got up to date, but as nobody seems to have provided a better answer yet, here we go:

  • For a while, Threads users outside of Europe can enable ActivityPub from their profile page. If they do so, it'll be possible to follow them from the Fediverse. In Europe this feature is missing, because Zuckerburg is bitter he cannot spy on us as much as he would like to.
  • Threads users can see comments and likes from the Fediverse, though it's kept separate from comments made in Threads. So far they cannot respond back to users on the Fediverse, so they cannot participate in the discussion, only see the comments.
  • Threads users can follow Fediverse profiles, but not in a particularly meaningful way. It seems they can enable notifications for new posts from users on the fediverse, but the content is not integrated in their Threads stream. They also cannot search for users: They can only interact with Fediverse users that they find somewhere on Threads. So if you follow someone on Threads they can follow you back; if you comment on a Threads post and people like what you're saying, they can follow you from your profile and follow you from there. However, they cannot look up Fediverse users who have not communicated with Threads in any way.
  • The Fediblock thingy makes the Fediverse a bit smaller seen from Threads. Not really a big deal for them, but if you're on an instance that blocks Threads you obviously won't have much success communicating with them.

So Threads has a long way to go, but a lot of the technology seems to be in place. They receive comments and content from the Fediverse to Threads, and they shoot content from Threads out into the Fediverse. It's just that they are keeping everything in separate channels over at threads, and they do not yet allow for federation of comments in Threads to allow for back and forth discussions.