Threads third-party app support could become a reality (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Mosseri says Threads is working on an API.

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[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

100 points for things nobody asked for

[-] chris@l.roofo.cc 17 points 1 year ago

It is still on Meta servers.

[-] donio@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

At the moment you can't even use the web UI without installing the official app so I am skeptical.

[-] nuzzlerat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I think this is nice in a time when social media companies have been actively killing third-party apps

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

take control of activitypub and forcibly remove Facebook from it

[-] Flabbergassed@artemis.camp 3 points 1 year ago

Is there someone using Threads?

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. The original owner of the name.

[-] benb@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Be the same as Twitter/X and Reddit. Use the Microsoft Embrace-Extend-Extinguish approach. Get some nice third party clients using the API, realise you can't pump ads into them, block them and force people to use the official apps because everyone is now using the platform and can't go anywhere else.

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