It appears that Threads is working on a Communities feature called "Loop", which might be similar to subreddits or X Communities. (mastodon.xyz)
from rglullis@communick.news to fediverse@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 2024 22:13
https://communick.news/post/1743817

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ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com on 07 Oct 2024 22:24 next collapse

Oh, it’s Google+ circles.

Kierunkowy74@piefed.social on 07 Oct 2024 22:53 collapse

That is, Diaspora aspects.

foggy@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 2024 22:27 next collapse

k

andrew_s@piefed.social on 07 Oct 2024 22:31 next collapse

In that thread, Gargron (the Mastodon dev) saying that they have groups on the back burner is a bit of an understatement (the code to support Lemmy-style communities has been sat languishing for ages).

Blaze@feddit.org on 07 Oct 2024 23:09 collapse

Maybe this will make them release it?

Kyrgizion@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 2024 22:35 next collapse

Embrace

Extend <==== you are here

Extinguish

can@sh.itjust.works on 07 Oct 2024 23:01 next collapse

Depressing, but luckily I believe there are enough of us here who will stay.

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org on 07 Oct 2024 23:33 next collapse

me eating my consumerist fried chips over at mbin, where we can microblog and join subs already

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech on 07 Oct 2024 23:44 next collapse

I agree that’s there plan, but aren’t groups already a part of the activity pub spec?

nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de on 08 Oct 2024 00:08 collapse

We have Lemmy communities already…

Lexam@lemmy.ca on 07 Oct 2024 22:41 next collapse

No fucks given.

Blaze@feddit.org on 07 Oct 2024 23:09 next collapse

Thanks for sharing

eruraindil@fedia.io on 08 Oct 2024 01:33 next collapse

Pixelfed's dansup is working on a federated short video platform called loops. It will be unfortunate if they end up with a naming overlap, especially if meta decides to be all aggressive with trademarks, even though this other project was announced months ago. I don't think dansup has a crack team of lawyers ready at his fingertips.

rimu@piefed.social on 08 Oct 2024 02:50 next collapse

Wake me up when they implement FEP 1b12.

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 2024 03:28 next collapse

Fuck meta

Fuck zucc

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub on 08 Oct 2024 03:42 next collapse

So, they’re already on the Extend phase. That was fast.

pseudo@jlai.lu on 09 Oct 2024 15:52 collapse

Are they choosing the names on purpose to mess with the fediverse vocabulary? Thread, when they are part of the twittoverse but not the threadiverse and now Loop like the TikTok-like federated social media from PixelFed…

Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world on 11 Oct 2024 04:02 collapse

I would say they probably are, but it’s way more likely than not that this is intentional. Why call communities loops? What about a community makes it a “loop”? It doesn’t make sense, unless they’re deliberately trying to cause confusion with fediverse terminologies.

pseudo@jlai.lu on 11 Oct 2024 11:19 collapse

We could mess back. We cannot influence much their userbase but we could make sure to stick to our vocabulary and rename Meta’s thing. For example, Thread should be rename MMT (Meta’s Microblogging Tool) and Loops, their “communities” Bubbles.