The upcoming 4.4 release has a generator based on a template, which was this one. We will look into whether we need to put that feature on hold from the 4.4 release while we work through this, however, yes the idea is that there would be a template set of terms that any instance could customise and adopt.

Perhaps not, perhaps so, but we do have other folks offering support and we will do what we can to get to a better situation here.

Legal stuff is complicated and we’re not all, always, experts at everything. FWIW https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114709820512537821

No, we did not (nor did we use any other AI tool).

Mastodon comms person here. We’re discussing how we go forward. The questions being asked are all absolutely reasonable, and we want to do what we can to improve the terms (that we do need to have in place) taking into account the feedback and offers of support.

and said that the instance would be cutting ties/not federating with Threads,

Can you please show exactly there this was said?

One of the ways that this could improve in the future is that we’re working on a notional caching service as a future Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider, so that this kind of content could be shared between small groups of instances that chose to use it.

If folks like the “Rebel Alliance” laptop sticker, you can get one via https://fediverseforfreedom.org/ … just sayin’.

hi from the Mastodon team, we’d love to work more closely with you in the future on Fediverse and freedom related topics 🙂 also, I am personally a big fan of PeerTube, and think the work you do is fantastic! 🐙

Do you mean you’re trying to access Threads’ ActivityPub endpoint(s)?

I’m pretty certain that you have to use signed requests, and bear in mind that not all users have federation enabled.

I just confirmed that by using the fedify CLI to test. Running fedify lookup andypiper@threads.net fails, but with fedify lookup -a andypiper@threads.net (which spins up a local server and performs authenticated requests) I get back JSON from the WebFinger endpoint.

You’ll probably get some folks able to share their experiences integrating / testing with Threads federation in some of the Fediverse Developers related Matrix rooms.

Cool, but Loops is not a Fediverse app until it federates, and it can’t be self-hosted until the code is available.

I have stickers (and was sharing them at FOSDEM) but I haven’t put them online anywhere yet, I need to get on that! Thanks for liking it!

well, except that is not actually federated yet.

Here is the Ghost talk from FOSDEM 2025 https://video.fosdem.org/2025/ud2208/fosdem-2025-4673-networked-journalism-bringing-long-form-publishing-to-the-fediverse.av1.webm

yes, although they are not all available yet. Here is the link to the videos from the room that hosted the Social Web track. https://video.fosdem.org/2025/ud2208/

There was a good talk about this at FOSDEM at the weekend!

If the user didn’t make their posts as discoverable, then no, they will not be returned in a search. The search is opt-in. It is not ideal, but it is a way to respect user privacy. I was making the point that search exists now, even if it had previously been rejected as a feature to implement, so it is not impossible for folks to change their opinions on including features.

I do not think that is a factual representation of the team dynamics, but of course, you are free to choose that interpretation.

quote posts are being implemented.

I don’t know, I was not involved if that was said at some time, but now, we have search, so I don’t know what to tell you.