• atocci@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It’s a public beta, so by the nature of things it’s going to be incomplete. Flipboard is doing the same thing with one-way federation and only federating certain profiles during the test period.

    They also didn’t say they want bot-scheduled inorganic content coming in a flood into everyone’s feed though, they said they’re releasing an API. An API could be used by a developer with ill-intentions to automate spam posting, but the alternative is to not have an API and never support third-party apps.

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      6 months ago

      Meta has been testing the Threads API with a small number of developers: Grabyo, Hootsuite, Social News Desk, Sprinklr, Sprout Social, and Techmeme

      I think we’re gonna have to agree to disagree on what they’re saying they want