It’s by Meta, that is all I need to know to stay away from it.
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 think @gargron is too young to understand what happened with XMPP and similar previous attempts.
XMPP had its own problems outside Google Talk’s use of that protocol, most notably that smartphones became a thing and the protocol at that time wasn’t really suitable for environments where connections are lost all the time.
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.
It’s a bit clumsy and I don’t think that they launched without fed on accident.
No, they defined a minimum valuable product and had to get a somewhat stable app out the door to capitalize on Twitter’s negative press. Deadlines are how features get cut. You see this in video games all the time.
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.
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?
