Threads make it easier to show people how to turn on Fediverse sharing:

[hallenbeck@mastodon.social]

Threads make it easier to show people how to turn on Fediverse sharing:

Threads makes it easier to evangelize the open social web with a new direct link feature | TechCrunch

It’s a small advance, but one that speaks to Meta’s enginerring team paying attention to how the fediverse community is trying to educate Threads users about the possibilities.  

TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

tl;dr just share this link with them:

Threads

Say more with Threads — Instagram's new text app.

Threads (www.threads.net)

Very handy! Hope Bluesky do something similar.

#Mastodon #Threads #Fediverse #Bluesky

[beaware@social.beaware.live]

@hallenbeck I wonder if it simply brings them to the settings page.

I saw a post earlier scrutinizing this as more of a "warning" rather than an invitation because of the wording on the page that seems very cautionary.

[hallenbeck@mastodon.social]

@BeAware

@paulk_ you have a Threads account don't you? What does the link do?

[paulk_@mastodon.social]

@hallenbeck @BeAware doesn’t actually take me to threads funnily enough

[beaware@social.beaware.live]

@paulk_ @hallenbeck

What the heck?

Where does it take you? Lmao...

[paulk_@mastodon.social]

@BeAware @hallenbeck takes me to a log in page to IG

[hallenbeck@mastodon.social]

@paulk_ @BeAware

If you have Threads you also have an IG account, tho, right?

[paulk_@mastodon.social]

@hallenbeck @BeAware yeah I do but it should just open IG for me instead of asking me to log into the website

[hallenbeck@mastodon.social]

@paulk_ @BeAware Takes me to the Threads login page.

[paulk_@mastodon.social]

@hallenbeck @BeAware that’s strange, I’ll give it another go

[beaware@social.beaware.live]

@paulk_ @hallenbeck

[paulk_@mastodon.social]

@hallenbeck @BeAware it works if I manually go to the settings page on my threads account but I post a link people will need to log onto the threads website and then it takes them there rather than taking them there in-app.

[beaware@social.beaware.live]

@paulk_ @hallenbeck what if you're already logged in on both IG and threads and click the link? it goes to the same page?

[paulk_@mastodon.social]

@BeAware @hallenbeck yep it still forces you to the website, a bit silly tbh.

[beaware@social.beaware.live]

@paulk_ @hallenbeck yeah, that is a bit silly. Though, the wording seems fine. Thanks for doing this experiment for us Meta wary folks!

[paulk_@mastodon.social]

@BeAware @hallenbeck wip I guess but threads are getting there, the explanation page is a good step. More than I can say for BlueSky!

[beaware@social.beaware.live]

@paulk_ @hallenbeck Well, they do have BridgyFed, which almost completely working and a third party bridge made by one guy. In comparison, Threads is a multibillion dollar company and the way they're doing it makes it seem very sus to us Meta wary folks.