Threads has officially joined the fediverse. Meta said Thursday that it is now opening up its beta experience of sharing Threads accounts to the fediverse to users 18 and older with public profiles. The integration is available in only three countries so far, namely the U.S., Canada, and Japan.
It had previously said in December that it was testing the feature on Mastodon and other ActivityPub protocol-supported networks.

To join the integration, go to account settings and turn on fediverse sharing. A popup will explain just what the fediverse is-a "social network of interconnected servers," the company describes it as, where people can "follow other people on different servers to see and interact with their content- similar to how email allows people to communicate regardless of the services they choose.".

You simply turn it on, and people on other servers, such as Mastodon, can find your Threads profile and like, repost, and share your posts with multiple audiences. That gives you the potential to reach other people who might not be on Threads but use competing social networking apps.

However, there are limitations. For one, you won't be able to see who replied to or liked your posts from other servers. You also can't share posts with polls. During the FediForum conference earlier this week, Meta's Peter Cottle mentioned in his demo that the company was working on changing this.

This is despite the drawbacks. Still, this is a noteworthy fact. Meta is now considering the incorporation of Threads into the decentralized social network system, when the app was just launched only eight months ago.