Why is Meta adding fediverse interoperability to Threads?

Why is Meta adding fediverse interoperability to Threads? What is Meta’s goal here?
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 95

The Dutch broadcaster NPO quits their Mastodon pilot project, Mastodon is working on Starter Packs and a preview of PeerTube 7.0
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 92

Simple bots, updates to Loops, and Flipboard takes over some automated RSS accounts.
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 91

Loops has finally launched, Radio Free Fedi will shut down, and governance for Bridgy Fed.
A conceptual model of ATProto and ActivityPub

If you were to design an open social networking protocol, what would that look like? Which metaphors and comparisons would you use to get a general idea of how the network functions? And what would you answer if people ask if your network is decentralised and federated?
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 90

The Fediverse Schema Observatory helps to improve interoperability, the botsin.space server will shut down, and more.
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 89

Shortform video platform Loops opens a waitlist for signups, Mosaic is a service to help organisations create their custom version of upcoming platform Bonfire, and the new owners of event planning platform Mobilizon release a big new update.
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 88

self-hosted 3d printing app Manyfold joins the fediverse, and sub.club expands to longform blogging with write.as
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 87

Mastodon has officially launched a new version, a new Reddit-like with ClubsAll has launched, and IFTAS has started rolling out their content classifier system.
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 86

Threads degrades their fediverse integration, a separate ActivityPub-based Island Network launches, and more news about Ghost and ActivityPub.