i swear, reading about "threads" by metafacebook and the promise of federation, it's like "the hope is to one day be able to see posts from one service on another service", as if linking and embeds do not exist and the internet is somehow not a thing.
idk, the things people want from the "modern web" makes me feel like either they don't understand how the internet works or i don't
The idea is that one day in the future, you can have your Threads posts be visible on other apps like Mastodon or Wordpress, or vice versa, and have users comment on posts across the apps. And if you decided to stop using Threads altogether, you would hypothetically be able to port all your content over into a new app.
what does this functionally do that isn't just a weird repacking of "sharing a link and posting about it"
which would be good, actually. I know it still exists but I need it to be more popular
Cohost has RSS Feeds! Just copy a profile URL and paste it into an RSS Feed Aggregator, and you're good to go!
Note: I did have issues with it working with Nextcloud News (or whatever their RSS feed reader is)
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I've also thought a lot more recently with the Twitter and Reddit things how I wish friends/ creators would just have their own sites with an RSS feed and I could subscribe to them that way. Another reason though I'd love to get all my friends onto CoHost. They can make posts regularly but I can see them via RSS lmao