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Threads has hashtags now (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Tags work a little differently than hashtags do on platforms like Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). When composing a Threads post, you start a tag by tapping the # symbol and then typing out your topic. But instead of being limited to just one word, you can type out a whole phrase (with spaces!) and add special characters, according to Mosseri. However, you can only make one tag per post."

I wonder how the tags will work if they federate with ActivityPub.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they forked mastodon and gutted the features and are now reimplementing them in a way that's fundamentally incompatible with upstream? Sounds a lot like something Silicon Valley would do.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Threads does not appear to be a fork of Mastodon or anything else.

It also doesn't federate yet and I'm not convinced it's actually going to, so I think posts about it might be off-topic for a community about the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also think the federation promise was just all smoke and mirrors to let the European Union allow them to publish the app.

I don't think we will ever see proper federation on Threads, even though I'd surely like it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Zuckerberg just posted this on Threads. Federation seems to be coming relatively soon.

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.