• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I assume that people with those attitudes “miss what Twitter used to be.”

    Miss me with that shit, Twitter was always a shithole and Jack Dorsey was always a Nazi-protecting piece of shit.

    Zuck and Meta ain’t no better.

    • atocci@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      There are lots of people on there I would like to follow, but they wont be joining the fediverse and I don’t want to make a Threads account myself either.

    • Tiger Jerusalem@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Lots of illustrators and writers have Threads and Instagram because it’s where the money is. They rely on that kind of exposure to sell and show their work. Following from Mastodon without a Threads account would be awesome.

      Not to mention that many Mastodon users are ridiculously “purists” saying that no ad or sell should be on the network, ever, and are actively hostile to the small guys trying to make a living here. I agreed that big corps can fuck off because they overdo ads, but the small guy selling his weird contraptions or custom phone cases should see Mastodon as an alternative. But the truth is that they won’t.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    1 year ago

    i honestly don’t get the hate. i love the fact that i wont need two apps anymore to see the more mainstream people i used to follow on twitter. tje worst part about twitter going under is the fragmentation.

    • Johanno@feddit.de
      0·
      1 year ago

      I understand you, but I specifically went to lemmy to not have any of that bullshit from Musk or Zuck or Spez. Facebook is a toxic dumpster fire(on purpose because money) Twitter is a toxic dumpster fire (because Musk is an asshole). Reddit is basically the same but the ceo is still an asshole. And I am sure that after a few years threads will follow this trend soon.

      • Corgana@startrek.website
        1·
        1 year ago

        idk there are a handful of Reddit communities I miss, I would love to be able to follow them here, ad free, without a Reddit account.

  • Tiger Jerusalem@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    People keep parroting that Threads will kill us all but won’t explain how it could happen to the fediverse. As in, actual steps. Because Flipboard federated and I’m not flooded with news posts. Mastodon is used for Nazi instances and I’m not flooded by Nazi content, even if the maintainer don’t block that particular instace due to not knowing it exists.

    No, XMP is not a valid example. It requires specific people to be on that specific platform for you to connect with them, like iMessage and WhatsApp. The fediverse is nothing like that.

    Can someone explain exactly how EEE will happen? Technically? Other than FUD?

    EDIT: thank you all for the replies, there’s definitely some good points that are worth considering that I couldn’t find elsewhere.

    • bitwolf@lemmy.one
      2·
      1 year ago

      Here’s an example I can see happening.

      Threads will want to implement post reactions to maintain parity with Facebook. Threads expands the ActivityPub spec to include reactions.

      Now, every other instance will not be compatible with reactions. Users complain they cannot see reactions.

      Admins have two choices now:

      • Refuse to implement reactions because they are not part of the spec. Users leave and join threads.

      • ActivityPub adds reactions to the standard, all instances must now support reactions. Meta has now started dictating the spec.

      I feel the XMP fears do have some sentiment, and it’s really a matter of how the broad username interprets these issues (including the Thread users which would be family and friends).

      • atocci@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think so. There are tons of ActivityPub implementations out there already that don’t even support all parts of the official spec (Lemmy can’t display attached images, for example). There are also implementations that have tacked on additional functionality beyond the official spec (again, Lemmy’s downvotes).

        It’s a very flexible protocol that allows developers to pick and choose what features they want to implement in their services.

  • qevlarr@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Saying federation is the same as bootlicking is fucking bullshit. I want my insurance to defederate, but this is ridiculous exaggeration

    • atocci@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      Limited means the instance has done something not quite to the level of total defederation, but still limits the presence of Threads users. For example, making it so you can only see a Threads user if you actively search for and follow them, removing all Threads content from the global feed by default, preventing Threads users from following your users, etc.

      “Fedipact” means that the admin of that instance has signed on to the informal agreement of the same name between instances that pledged to defederate from Threads preemptively.