Adam Mosseri:
Second, threads posted by me and a few members of the Threads team will be available on other fediverse platforms like Mastodon starting this week. This test is a small but meaningful step towards making Threads interoperable with other apps using ActivityPub — we’re committed to doing this so that people can find community and engage with the content most relevant to them, no matter what app they use.
No I pay for a vm on digitalocean. I tried building a reputation with IPs from other providers (Linode, and some German one I can’t remember) but that didn’t help.