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The consequence of this will be that the entirety of online discussion will be in the hands of one company: Meta. I hate social media either way but it does se
by Dig1t 3y ago
The consequence of this will be that the entirety of online discussion will be in the hands of one company: Meta.
I hate social media either way but it does seem problematic to have the vast majority public discourse moderated and controlled by one company.
- moogly 3y agoMeta's services are not public though? You can only read a few lines before you need to login, I think.
- Javalicious 3y agoKinda? It's not like there aren't alternatives, but the user base numbers are vastly different. I'd be curious to know how many of these are active users now. BlueSky: 1 million (Sept 2023) https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bluesky-officially-hits-1-million-003243970.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bluesky-officially-hits-1-mil... Mastadon: 10 million (March 2023) https://www.statista.com/statistics/1376022/global-registered-mastodon-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1376022/global-registere... Threads: 100 million (July 2023) https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-twitter-rival-threads-hits-100-mln-users-record-five-days-2023-07-10/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-twitter-rival-threa...
- fooofw 3y agoThreads is also made by Meta
- msm_ 3y agoI never used Meta. Discussion platforms I use are HN, reddit, ocassionaly twitter/mastodon and online chats, like mattermost or discord. Maybe I'm currently the minority, but even now it's not true that entirety of online discussion is controlled by Meta.