Meta has been steadily improving Threads' compatibility with fediverse over the last year. Now, the company is taking another important step with an update that allows users to see more details about their followers and interactions with people on other servers across the universe.
So far, Threads has shown responses from Mastodon and other servers, and alerted users about likes on their posts from other fediverse apps. But a Threads user had no way to see details about their followers on those services. That's now changing, Adam Mosseri explained in a publication.
With the update, anyone who has chosen to share fediverse on Threads will be able to see a detailed list of their followers from other servers and view their profiles. This will give people on Threads a better idea of their reach and audience on Mastodon and other apps.
Threads' diverse support is still somewhat limited overall. Users still can't reply to responses originating from apps outside of Threads, and there's no way to search for people on other servers from Threads. There is also still a delay in cross-posting; It will now take 15 minutes for a Threads post to appear, as Meta also expanded the edit window for publications.
Elsewhere, third-party developers are also making things easier for users who want to publish to multiple decentralized services. A new application called croissant allows cross-posting to Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky at the same time. The payment app, first seen by technologycrunch, aims to replicate the functionality of enterprise social media management applications like Buffer.