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what do you call #meta's #instagram that tries to be mastodon?
#threads? well, yes, but! it should have been… #metadon:
«[Instagram] withdrawal management using methadone can be accomplished in less than a month, or it may be done gradually over a longer period of time, or simply maintained for the rest of the patient’s life».
A powerful image that, this account is my very first foray into any kind of 'social media'.
I'm a long-time, grey-haired IT consultant so no luddite, but have always steered clear of the all-powerful corporate behemoths and yearned for the 'good old days' when thousands of individual subject-specific forums were independently run by moderators for zero renumeration.
The open/decentralised nature of ActivityPub and particularly the Mastodon implementation is the thing that's brought me... cautiously... tentatively... into the fold.
Here's hoping this or something like it can be the way forward, and the Zuckerbergs of this world will eventually lose their shrivelled-claw-like grip on how the world communicates.
But all in all, despite the horrible Meta tracking, in one day Threads got more users signed up than Mastodon has since it's launch, and more than the entire Fediverse in general.
a large rather unfriendly company can potentially kill the fediverse, through a strategy known as 'embrace, extend, extinguish'. imagine this (simplified) scenario:
1. A majority of the fediverse chooses to accept federation with Threads. support is good, improvements are made, and everyone is happy for now. 2. Meta adds new features to Threads that don't work with other instances 3. Users upset that these new features break on other instances, and are forced to switch to Threads as the other instances become 'obsolete'.
This happened numerous times in the software world. For a company like Meta, this is quite realistic.
Yeah, I understand that, but at the same time, that doesn't really matter to content creators or companies. Even if Threads is artificially inflating it's numbers, it's still more appealing for an entity like a content creator or company to move over to with the 30m+ users than Mastodon only having 13m even after a 7 years of operation. By contrast, Discord already had well over 100m users after 7 years of operation. I don't mean to sound doomer-ish, I'm just wondering how Mastodon is supposed to compete with behemoths?
I don't think it's cool, I'm evaluating it from a perspective of which one people are more likely to swap over to, and given Threads model, I think that as of the moment, more people are likely to swap over to it than to Mastodon, even if I'd prefer people swap over to Mastodon myself.
I believe nobody expected you to hit that hard against Meta, Twitter, and so on. But you did, you really did. And I think the resulting art is really strong, emotional, and expressive, and I do appreciate it.
As a web Dev of 23 years and seeing what the big players have done to browsers and the web -- I can't help but feel concerned and skepticism. It's going to be an interesting few years on #fedi -- if any of the other closed platforms join this is going to get even more bizarre -- but as Mark Twain says
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•Anders Rytter Hansen doesn't like this.
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•Currently Instagram is a closed place: if you don't have an account you can't really browse the user's content
That's one thing Elon tried to do with his toy in the last few days, and users weren't happy
For Threads, you need an Instagram account, but is content will be available for everyone, or just for registered users?
Twitter users may will just migrate from a proprietary closed place to another one, Mastodon and Fediverse may not be really impacted by them...
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•lol! had a similar moment just today:
https://mastodon.social/@tivasyk/110669484785096545
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•I'm a long-time, grey-haired IT consultant so no luddite, but have always steered clear of the all-powerful corporate behemoths and yearned for the 'good old days' when thousands of individual subject-specific forums were independently run by moderators for zero renumeration.
The open/decentralised nature of ActivityPub and particularly the Mastodon implementation is the thing that's brought me... cautiously... tentatively... into the fold.
Here's hoping this or something like it can be the way forward, and the Zuckerbergs of this world will eventually lose their shrivelled-claw-like grip on how the world communicates.
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•caws-a-bit
•1. A majority of the fediverse chooses to accept federation with Threads. support is good, improvements are made, and everyone is happy for now.
2. Meta adds new features to Threads that don't work with other instances
3. Users upset that these new features break on other instances, and are forced to switch to Threads as the other instances become 'obsolete'.
This happened numerous times in the software world. For a company like Meta, this is quite realistic.
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•Excellent portrayal.
#krita #mastoart #threads #fediverse #meta
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