An alternative to X, it turns out, is just another battlefield.

Once upon a time on social media, the nicest app of them all, Instagram, home to animal bloopers and filtered selfies, established a land called Threads, a hospitable alternative to the cursed X, Formerly Known as Twitter. X had been taken over by the Dark Lord Musk, he who reopened X’s gateway to its banished demons Donald Trump, Kanye West and Andrew Tate.

The good people of X tried to flee, scattering to the hinterlands of Mastodon and Bluesky, whose distant confines they then complained about on X.

But Threads would provide a new refuge. It would be Twitter But Nice, a Good Place where X’s liberal exiles could gather around for a free exchange of ideas and maybe even a bit of that 2012 Twitter magic — the goofy memes, the insider riffing, the meeting of new online friends. A place where learnings and conversations were almost better than IRL engagement. With many key functions still in development, Threads even had

Soapbox lead developer, Alex Gleason discovered, that at least 5 Fediverse instances are blocked by Threads. These are:

• One of most-blocked instances on the Fediverse (for good reasons), poa.st,
• An infamous TERF instances, spinster.xyz,
• Its offshoot, neenster.org
• A bridge between ActivityPub and Nostr protocols, mostr.pub,
• And a Fediverse instance with cryptocurrency integration: https://mitra.social

All five instances were not able to fetch posts from Meta's instance, which made Gleason suppose, that ə is using AUTHORIZEDFETCH.

Contrary to admins, who signed FediPact, Gleason is keen on federating with Instagram Threads and made a patch to circumvent signed fetch by using separate domains for request signing.

If you are an admin of an instance, watch out for these spoof domains

An original blog post by Gleason

Crosspost from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/6861256

The link goes to this users Mastodon post on the subject. I’m going to copy part of the text of his post without having to post the Threads post they were shown. Click through if you want to see for yourself, avoid if such things are upsetting to you.

“This was a post promoted to me from within Instagram to try and get me to use threads. Ill say that again: this is the promotional content shown to non-threads users as an inducement to join threads.”

If you do click through to the Mastodon thread, you’ll see several other people confirming they’ve seen the same or similar posts promoting Threads.

I’ve said the same thing in comments to other Threads related posts in this community but I’m going to say it again; didn’t we create and use fediverse software like Mastodon, Lemmy, PixelFed etc in large part to escape the constant hate-baiting and algorithmic manipulation of companie

It looks that transphobic posts on ə are now promoted on main Instagram app: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/723252/Instagram-Users-Shown-Transphobia-As-Promotional-Tool-To-Join-Threads

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am release fish

is dumb not to release because he didnt cause problem yet

am goings to “wait and see” if he permanently damage ecosystem before remove

threads #fedipact

@mosseri: The current plan is you'll have to have a public account and explicitly opt in to your content being available on other servers. This is consistent with what other large players like WordPress are doing, but somewhat controversial within the Mastodon community. If we end defaulting people in, we'll absolutely offer an opt out, but we're not currently moving in that direction.

Some Threads accounts are available and followable via /kbin

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Mark Zuckerberg: Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol. Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people. I'm pretty optimistic about this.

Exactly like /kbin magazine - only with spaces and special characters allowed in its name.

When Meta launched Threads in July, one of the complaints users had about the platform was that it was impossible to delete your Threads profile without also deleting your Instagram account.

What just happened? In what is another case of a tiny company suing an internet giant for allegedly using a trademarked name, a British software firm has told Meta it's got 30 days to stop using the term Threads for its latest social media platform in the UK as it owns the trademark.