It feels like for every small step taken towards a decentralised social network we get a giant leap back to centralised networks run by surveillance capitalist billionaires
21st century people have only ever known capitalist control, they can’t help it
But picking an instance is so hard 😭
This is why we can’t have nice things. People literally want to be told what to do.
So much of the systemic problems in the world stem from that sort of mentality
But picking all instance is so hard
I mean actually kinda yes. I’m pretty techy and I spent a few days trying to figure out which one I would use. Ultimately landed on .world because I didn’t want to do an interview. Other people might be turned away from that, but maybe it’s a good thing.
I’ve been busy all day, but I’ve just seen through talking with others how threads is basically blowing up today and lots of our local Twitter accounts, companies, bigger celebrities/influencers and more are going to it and sharing their accounts.
And it just makes me so fucking sad to see people embrace Facebook again when a decentralized, grassroots, non corporate alternative was already right there. It’s a lot of “liberal” people, too.
It’s sad but understandable. One is the company that people already know and their favorite celebrity just announced their new account, the other is ‘wtf is fediverse and federation’?
May god have mercy on their souls…still better than twitter though
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What’s even the purpose of following people then? I don’t get it.
It’s mostly better than twitter, in that it actually functions reasonably well, and it’s obviously considerably worse than Mastodon (especially compared to the Ivory app)
- The biggest downside is the timeline seems to show a mixture of accounts you follow and other accounts, seemingly suggested accounts that it thinks you might want to follow. I can’t see any way to only see posts from accounts you follow.
- The timeline isn’t chronological and I can’t see a way to make it chronological
- You can’t edit posts
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Their competition is with Twitter. They are not competing with Mastodon (atleast for now).
True, this is just from my own perspective, and I use Mastodon.
Can’t believe you pay a subscription to use a proprietary mastodon app
As long as I don’t have to interact with that instance I’m OK. I’d rather not ever federate with Meta though
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Sooo … we’re just gonna take Zuck on his word here … does anyone know for sure how many people are on there?
I’m wonder if we’ll be able to get stats like this ourselves once they are federating with Mastodon instances.
Musk is going to be pissed. Let’s see if the cage match happens.
Will not happen. Musk doesn’t want to get Zucked.
I downloaded it and it instantly wanted my age, so that was a fast delete, didn’t even get logged in
Ofcourse it wanted to know your age. You could have just lied if you wanted to just test the app.
my instagram already has my age
God bless their hearts
