It appears that Threads is working on a Communities feature called "Loop", which might be similar to subreddits or X Communities.

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Kyrgizion

Embrace

Extend <==== you are here

Extinguish

Scrubbles

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

Aatube

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

nilloc

We have Lemmy communities already…

can

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

eruraindil , edited

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.

Andrew

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 (he/him)

Maybe this will make them release it?

ReallyActuallyFrankenstein

Oh, it's Google+ circles.

Kierunkowy74

That is, Diaspora aspects.

pseudo

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

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

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.

Blaze (he/him)

Thanks for sharing

Rimu

Wake me up when they implement FEP 1b12.

HootinNHollerin , edited

Fuck meta

Fuck zucc

Lexam

No fucks given.

foggy

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