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Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed (mastodon.social)

submitted 8 months ago by nix@merv.news to c/technology@lemmy.world

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For anyone wondering if Threads and Facebook at large will be a fine neighbor in the space and compatible with other apps/services in the fediverse: they’re already automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I was under the impression that it theoretically could but wasn’t set up in a way that made this possible. But perhaps I was mistaken.

How do I access Mastodon content using my account here then?

[–] zephr_c@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Threads hasn't had federation enabled until now, but you've always been able to interact with Mastodon... sort of. The Lemmy UI doesn't really have a good way of finding Mastodon posts that don't tag a Lemmy community or of following Mastodon users, but if they do tag a community the Mastodon post will show up as a Lemmy post in that community.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago

I see. So functionally it doesn’t really work, at least in this direction.

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

You've had some well-meaning but ultimately not quite accurate answers in this thread so just to clarify:

You can follow, post to and interact with Lemmy communities from Mastodon, because they're treated the same way as a "group" on Mastodon in general.

You can NOT follow and interact with Mastodon users from Lemmy, because Mastodon accounts are individual "users" and Lemmy doesn't have the concept of following and interacting with users, only with communities. If Lemmy ever does add a feature to let us follow other users, then in theory following Mastodon users will also become possible.

[–] midnight@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

You can't use mastodon from Lemmy, but you can from some threadiverse software like Kbin.