The Threads team at Meta has spent the past year working on supporting the broader fediverse and social web, and is launching is biggest integrations yet: a new dedicated feed for fedivese posts, and a way to search for fediverse users inside of Threads, The Verge reported.
Starting today, if you’ve turned on fediverse sharing in Threads, there will be a new section at the top of your Following feed that takes you to a list of posts from folks you follow on Mastodon, Flipboard, or wherever else you’ve connected your Threads account.
It’s very much a separate feed that takes you to a list of posts from folks you follow on Mastodon, Flipboard, or wherever else you’ve connected your Threads account.
It’s very much a separate feed, which Meta software engineer Peter Cottle tells me is deliberate. “For everything from integrity to impersonation, just for user understanding, it’s nice to have it as a kind of separate thing.”
The fediverse feed isn’t algorithmically ranked, or subject to any of Threads’ rules or moderation. It’s just a reverse chronological feed of stuff you follow.
Meta reported: The fedivese is an open global network of interconnected, but still independent, social media servers, each with its own users, content, and rules. In Threads, you can turn on sharing to the fediverse to see posts from those other servers for others to see.
Our new search feature and dedicated fediverse feed help you discover more perspectives from people outside of Threads. You don’t have other miss out on anyone’s posts just because they happen to post on different platforms.
Starting today,, if you’ve turned on sharing to the fediverse in Threads, you’ll be able to see posts from federated users you follow (people who are sharing to the fediverse) that were posted originally on other apps and servers an shared to the fediverse.
You can also search for fediverse profiles directly in Threads. For example, you can search for a WordPress blogger’s federated profile and interact with their posts right in Threads. That way, you’ll be able to see the many conversations happening across platforms while in Threads.
TechCrunch reported: Instagram Threads, Meta’s competitor to X, on Tuesday launched two new features as part of its plan to further integrate with the open social web, known as the fediverse.
Now, Threads users will be able to see posts from other users on the fediverse within a dedicated feed if they’ve opted in to fediverse sharing on Threads. Plus, people will be able to search for fediverse users directly in Threads.
Posts from federated users will be found on the Following tab of the Threads app. They don’t appear in line with the other posts from Threads users, however. Instead, you’ll tap a link at the top of the feed to view these posts in a separate feed.