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Very shallow and naive view. I hate to be the old-timer here, but I think @gargron is too young to understand what happened with XMPP and similar previous attempts.
I too found it naive. Not just XMPP, but RSS, it was tried with ActiveX, docs half ass support open formats. This is a tale older than Gargron and iffhe thinks Mastodon is immune then he can go have a seat next to Spez and Elon.
An excellent summary. I think instance owners shouldn’t be too quick to block threads. ActivityPub was built around low trust, so why not give them a chance?
I thought it was a terrible summary where they missed all the things they were saying that would make me switch to a defederated instance or delete my account. They got one thing which is like magic beans and gave away free airspace to those fuckers!
Because there’s low trust, and then there’s looking at everything Meta/Facebook have done over the past 15 years and thinking “yep, they’ll be alright”.
They are a prodit driven company trying to obtain 100% market share. What do you think is going to happen?
A lot of the people I follow are trying out Threads, but because of no federation yet, you need to use their app to see what they post there. It’s a bit clumsy and I don’t think that they launched without fed on accident.
I wonder if we’ll also see people posting on both Threads and Mastodon, which will mean having to follow two accounts for one person if I want to see both. Just seems odd to use both rather than migrate.
Trying to think positive about this, but just not seeing many upsides so far.
The EU has been really great lately. Gdpr laws are protecting us from all of these shitty preditory services that Americans will be the first to sign up on.
Yeah, I don’t agree with this at all. They’re fully blinders on and it’s annoying.