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

submitted 2 months ago by rglullis@communick.news to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago

Embrace

Extend <==== you are here

Extinguish

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 22 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 2 months ago

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

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

We have Lemmy communities already…

[-] eruraindil@fedia.io 28 points 2 months ago

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_s@piefed.social 21 points 2 months ago

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@feddit.org 13 points 2 months ago

Maybe this will make them release it?

[-] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 2 months ago

Oh, it's Google+ circles.

[-] Kierunkowy74@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago

That is, Diaspora aspects.

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 10 points 2 months ago

So, they're already on the Extend phase. That was fast.

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 8 points 2 months ago

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@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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@jlai.lu 2 points 2 months ago

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.