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Half my feed is filled with people sharing their Threads profiles. While I don’t think Meta has the culture to foster the kind of chaotic insanity that goes on

by spaceman_2020 3y ago

Half my feed is filled with people sharing their Threads profiles. While I don’t think Meta has the culture to foster the kind of chaotic insanity that goes on at Twitter, Musk better up his game - this is a far more serious mainstream contender than the Fediverse.

jillesvangurp 3y ago
The fediverse's slow and steady approach might be long term more sustainable than VCs burning billions in repeated attempts to "conquer" the users. This one has the distinct smell of desperation around it. I don't think even Meta itself is that convinced it will work. Whatever happens, the fediverse will be fine. It's not dependent on VCs, ads, influencers, scammers, etc. All it needs is people willing to set up servers and host some users. It's open source so as long as there are people willing to work on that, it continues to exist.
- rvz 3y ago
  > All it needs is people willing to set up servers and host some users. It's open source so as long as there are people willing to work on that, it continues to exist. The Fediverse requires money and donations to continue their uptime and it will get difficult for them to stay relevant if they cannot handle the influx of users posting on Threads when they federate. Meta is already making money and is insanely profitable and doesn't need VCs. Essentially they have won social networks and have already signed NDAs with Mastodon admins of the largest instances to federate with them anyway. This integration only benefits Meta and Threads and at this rate Threads will be larger than the entire Fediverse and will be the Fediverse.
- fennecfoxy 3y ago
  No normal person cares about the "fediverse", in the same way that no normal person cares about the bored out engine of some classic car that some petrol head tuned & turbocharged; they just want four wheels. Regular people don't care about the minutiae of a platform, they just want to use the platform & get on with their lives. Of course this is isn't great, but it's just how people are.
ZeroGravitas 3y ago
Meta is at least claiming this will be part of the Fediverse.
- spaceman_2020 3y ago
  The people who care about the Fediverse won’t touch Meta’s products with a ten foot pole

jillesvangurp 3y ago

The fediverse's slow and steady approach might be long term more sustainable than VCs burning billions in repeated attempts to "conquer" the users. This one has the distinct smell of desperation around it. I don't think even Meta itself is that convinced it will work. Whatever happens, the fediverse will be fine. It's not dependent on VCs, ads, influencers, scammers, etc. All it needs is people willing to set up servers and host some users. It's open source so as long as there are people willing to work on that, it continues to exist.

rvz 3y ago
> All it needs is people willing to set up servers and host some users. It's open source so as long as there are people willing to work on that, it continues to exist. The Fediverse requires money and donations to continue their uptime and it will get difficult for them to stay relevant if they cannot handle the influx of users posting on Threads when they federate. Meta is already making money and is insanely profitable and doesn't need VCs. Essentially they have won social networks and have already signed NDAs with Mastodon admins of the largest instances to federate with them anyway. This integration only benefits Meta and Threads and at this rate Threads will be larger than the entire Fediverse and will be the Fediverse.
fennecfoxy 3y ago
No normal person cares about the "fediverse", in the same way that no normal person cares about the bored out engine of some classic car that some petrol head tuned & turbocharged; they just want four wheels. Regular people don't care about the minutiae of a platform, they just want to use the platform & get on with their lives. Of course this is isn't great, but it's just how people are.

ZeroGravitas 3y ago

Meta is at least claiming this will be part of the Fediverse.

spaceman_2020 3y ago
The people who care about the Fediverse won’t touch Meta’s products with a ten foot pole