VEX.blue Articles - How to Turn on Fediverse Sharing on Threads

Back when I wrote Decentralised Social Media an article about the Fediverse and some of the various projects I mentioned about writing another article about how to turn on ‘Fediverse Sharing’ on threads. This is that article.

When you are on your Threads account navigate to settings and then account, so settings - account. You will see a little BETA icon next to a setting called Fediverse Sharing, If this says off click on it.

This then brings up a 'What is the Fediverse' allowing you to read through what people would be able to do with you sharing to the Fediverse, we covered some of this in Decentralised Social Media.

You can pretty much scroll and accept this if you understand what the Fediverse is.

Make sure to click next, to accept you understand what the Fediverse. This will come up with a small page simply explaining that your posts could be stored on other peoples services even after you delete your posts, this is due to how data works. This is to be honest already happening with things such as Screenshots & websites that track deleted posts & comments, so isn't really anything new.

Simply if you don’t want it public, DO NOT POST IT. The internet is a place that doesn’t really forget stupid things you say, so be careful out there.

To turn on Fediverse Sharing just press ‘Turn on Sharing’.

Now that you've turned on Fediverse Sharing, you'd be able to access your account on places like Mastodon by typing @[Handle]@threads.net, so for ours at VEX.blue its @VEXdotblue@threads.net, warning some servers may have already blocked Threads meaning you may need to use another server.

Your old posts will not be added the Fediverse but your new ones will be, also when someone from the Fediverse interacts you will not see the username at the moment, along with you can not reply to there comments just yet but further integration is meant to being worked on before the end of 2024. Thank you, feel free to follow us on Mastodon [@VEXdotblue@southampton.social] or on threads [@VEXdotblue@threads.net].