At the fediverse’s heart are protocols. Meta says Threads supports the “ActivityPub” protocol so that it can assimilate within the fediverse. ActivityPub was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and it allows the creation of a federal system that essentially serves the same formula as social networking platforms, but with a lot more freedom and no centralization limits.
Systems built upon the foundations of ActivityPub collectively form the fediverse. Right now, Threads exists as a social media platform like Instagram or Facebook. But in the fediverse, it would exist like a server, among hundreds of other servers.
Despite these servers having their own unique set of rules and policies, each would be able to communicate with each other — no walled garden. You can have an account on Threads, but still be able to post and interact with content on another server like Mastodon. Essentially, you can envision the fediverse as an interconnected web of online social corners.
The closest example of such an ecosystem would be email. It doesn’t matter if you have a Gmail account, or whether you are using Outlook, you can still send and receive messages from a Yahoo account. It all happens with interoperable protocols, just like ActivityPub, which connects fediverse servers. Right now, Threads is not a part of the fediverse, but it will be soon. When it happens, Threads and Mastodon will technically become interoperable.
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