My big hope from this is that people might learn more about federated content and the fediverse in general. Then they can move away from stuff meta makes into the actual private internet.
I’m reeeeeal cautious about it. There’s a Dr. Strange level of one positive ending, and that’s where users log into FB’s not twitter, discover a ton of content on mastadon and lemmy, subscribe, and then when they eventually try to sever the connection (when, not if), most of the content is over here and people want to switch.
They want to collect all sizes not just peepees!
But tbh they are doing this on twitter… There is not really any big difference, the only difference being is that people complain about this now.
I never said twitter was better. But I’m frustrated that people who hate twitter right now are probably more likely to move to this Meta crap instead of good alternatives like Mastodon
Well it kinda makes sense that people will move to the bigger platform’s… But I hope the open source ones gets more traction. I’m noticing that I use less reddit now… And when Relay stops working I might migrate fully.
The unfortunate reality is that unlike us, most of the Twitter users could not care less about making choices, let alone privacy.
Twitfaces can’t calm down and talk without going ballistic and you think they’ll willingly look into what federated social media is?
Alot of them are moving though thanks to twitter repeatedly fucking up, I’ve been seeing some artists and such on mastodon recently that were only on twitter before.
People just need to spread the word; there isn’t a marketing campaign or anything for the fediverse after all.
“ If you’re wondering why this matters, here’s a reason: you may one day end up leaving Threads, or, hopefully not, end up de-platformed. If that ever happens, you should be able to take your audience with you to another server. Being open can enable that.”
Mastodon is the federated equivalent of twitter the same way lemmy can be considered the federated alternative of reddit. That’s the nice Twitter alternative you are looking for.
This would be great but most people will not care and sacrifice data for convinence. Wish the government cared as much about us big tech as they did TikTok.
Ive been using wefwef since the loss of Apollo / reddit, it works pretty well and allows to sort posts or comments accordingly. If you want to see what’s going on right now you can go to your all feed and set it to the most recent posts. Also has a bunch of other sorting options. Like hot and active.
Mastodon is a viable option, but then again, this app does some basic automatic account creation from existing FB data and follow people from it. This alone will impress some non-tech journalist and praise it.
We have become too lazy to get out of the burning house and save our life.
I wonder if any of that break some GPDR or California Data laws.
And people will join on there and it will have more success than better alternatives probably, at least for now. It’s mindblowing how little people care/understand.
And it’s not even like Meta offers any good service, FB has been crap forever.
I think most of the world has bought into the marketing lies of big tech, where they claim to be secure and private. Caring for their users.
I was one of those people, until one day I asked a simple question, “what are these companies doing to actually protect me?”
Nothing. rather I have made myself more vulnerable by being on a platform that uses my information at scale.
They are doing everything to protect themselves from law suits and to keep racking in money over decades old dream of marketing based on large amount of personal data gathering.
Ad money is drying up this year, high interest rate and all that. I wonder what impact that will have on these platforms.
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My big hope from this is that people might learn more about federated content and the fediverse in general. Then they can move away from stuff meta makes into the actual private internet.
I’m reeeeeal cautious about it. There’s a Dr. Strange level of one positive ending, and that’s where users log into FB’s not twitter, discover a ton of content on mastadon and lemmy, subscribe, and then when they eventually try to sever the connection (when, not if), most of the content is over here and people want to switch.
This is so egregiously excessive that Threads can’t launch in the EU (https://m.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-threads-app-in-the-eu-irish-dpc-says-metas-new-twitter-rival-wont-be-launched-here/a1927220337.html)
Is anyone really supprised?
Not the fact they want to collect our data but it’s the kind of data that’s concerning.
“Sensitive info”. Does Zucky want to collect data about the size of our peepees?
“Other data”. Aka “literally whatever the fuck we want”
They want to collect all sizes not just peepees!
But tbh they are doing this on twitter… There is not really any big difference, the only difference being is that people complain about this now.
I never said twitter was better. But I’m frustrated that people who hate twitter right now are probably more likely to move to this Meta crap instead of good alternatives like Mastodon
Well it kinda makes sense that people will move to the bigger platform’s… But I hope the open source ones gets more traction. I’m noticing that I use less reddit now… And when Relay stops working I might migrate fully.
Yeah I don’t get why they need all these permissions. Crazy
Because they want it. It’s the main reason why they’ve built the app.
for targeted ads I guess
Mastodon is already pretty active, and is also part of the fediverse
The unfortunate reality is that unlike us, most of the Twitter users could not care less about making choices, let alone privacy. Twitfaces can’t calm down and talk without going ballistic and you think they’ll willingly look into what federated social media is?
Alot of them are moving though thanks to twitter repeatedly fucking up, I’ve been seeing some artists and such on mastodon recently that were only on twitter before.
People just need to spread the word; there isn’t a marketing campaign or anything for the fediverse after all.
We are the marketing campaign.
“If you can hear this… You ARE the resistance.”
It’s like this for every major mainstream social media app
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Yep you’re right, and they shut it down: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-its-companion-app-threads-by-year-end/
Facebook makes a product that squeezes every last drop from your privacy? Nooooooo waaaay!
Ahem. They’re called Meta.
But seriously, fuck anything Zuckerberg owns.
I would love to use it as a conduit to drag those I love out of the Facebook/Instagram microcosms.
Adam Mosseri appears to be embracing the idea of Open Federation for Threads; https://www.threads.net/t/CuRtcYTNY3J
“ If you’re wondering why this matters, here’s a reason: you may one day end up leaving Threads, or, hopefully not, end up de-platformed. If that ever happens, you should be able to take your audience with you to another server. Being open can enable that.”
As long as Meta hasn’t Embraced, Extended and Exterminated the fediverse by that point.
They gave up on the metaverse already so I don’t think that name fits anymore.
I don’t care what they all themselves, they are always going to be Facebook.
Twitter collects just about as much data
All social media are same lol
As of Twitter doesn’t collect your data…
Mastodon is the federated equivalent of twitter the same way lemmy can be considered the federated alternative of reddit. That’s the nice Twitter alternative you are looking for.
This is what I’ve been telling everyone. Don’t go to threads, go to mastodon.
This would be great but most people will not care and sacrifice data for convinence. Wish the government cared as much about us big tech as they did TikTok.
They only attacked TikTok because it’s Chinese, though. Their own data thieves are OK cause they’re buddies.
Of course. That’s my point. All big tech needs to be held to that standard but it doesn’t.
Also calckey is pretty cool too
Is there a way to see recent popular posts? That’s like the only thing missing for me.
Ive been using wefwef since the loss of Apollo / reddit, it works pretty well and allows to sort posts or comments accordingly. If you want to see what’s going on right now you can go to your all feed and set it to the most recent posts. Also has a bunch of other sorting options. Like hot and active.
Sounds interesting. I’ll definitely check out if they come up with an app for iOS in the future.
WefWef is an web app, you can already install it on iOS through the browser.
No, mastodon is for following people or specific communities… it is specifically NOT for listening to or speaking to the whole world.
Not that you’ve said that, it makes perfect sense for me why mastodon is the way it is.
Even tho the meme is using “disappointed black guy”, I wouldn’t be surprised or disappointed actually.
It’s meta, what else can someone expect from them?
Mastodon is a viable option, but then again, this app does some basic automatic account creation from existing FB data and follow people from it. This alone will impress some non-tech journalist and praise it. We have become too lazy to get out of the burning house and save our life.
I wonder if any of that break some GPDR or California Data laws.
And people will join on there and it will have more success than better alternatives probably, at least for now. It’s mindblowing how little people care/understand.
And it’s not even like Meta offers any good service, FB has been crap forever.
I think most of the world has bought into the marketing lies of big tech, where they claim to be secure and private. Caring for their users. I was one of those people, until one day I asked a simple question, “what are these companies doing to actually protect me?” Nothing. rather I have made myself more vulnerable by being on a platform that uses my information at scale. They are doing everything to protect themselves from law suits and to keep racking in money over decades old dream of marketing based on large amount of personal data gathering. Ad money is drying up this year, high interest rate and all that. I wonder what impact that will have on these platforms.
Why the first reaction frame? Instagram is owned by Meta, of course they’re going to have incredibly invasive data collection policies.