Manually cross-posting to Threads to play with it and learn. As soon as it federates I’ll stop posting and people can just follow my Micro.blog-based blog directly.

@manton I am hoping it federates and we can link up with it as with Mastodon. I’ve been quite satisfied being solely on micro.blog for three years now and won’t be using Threads myself, but it would be nice to be able to connect with some friends who will never leave the Big Tech platforms. :)

@jtr @jabel I would love that, but it’s unlikely that Threads will allow it. Instead, Threads users will be able to follow Micro.blog accounts directly. Micro.blog cross-posting is only possible if Threads has a posting API.

@manton hmm unsurprising. So on threads I should be able to find jtr@taonaw.com or jtr@micro.blog? Because they don’t show up.

@jtr ActivityPub support wasn’t launched with Threads so there’s no federation yet to allow following non-Thread users. The hope is we can trust Meta when they say support is coming.

@kurite @manton ah ok. Back under the rock I go then :)

@jtr Haha. Same.

@manton apparently you can’t delete your profile without deleting your IG account
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@bgrinter Ha! Figures. This is clearly bootstrapped on Instagram’s backend, not really a standalone service.