Threads joining the fediverse; Trending posts fully rolling out in US [Video]

We’ve known for a while that Threads is joining the fediverse, and parent company Meta has now provided a preview of how things will work.

The concept of the fediverse is to network together individual social media platforms, such that you can post once on one of them, and then share your post on other services …

The fediverse – short for “federated universe” – describes the idea that different social media platforms can be both independent and interconnected.

The term was first used for social networks which used a particular sharing protocol called OStatus, of which Mastodon was a key advocate, but this has been largely superseded by ActivityPub. This allows you to post and read on one social network, but share posts to others, and also receive updates from those platforms.

Engadget reports on a presentation shared by Meta at the online fediverse conference, FediForum.

Instagram engineer Peter Cottle gave a short presentation on “Threads in the Fediverse” at FediForum, a …