Howard Lake#Faceblock campaign urges users to boycott Facebook for a day:via @guardian
theguardian.com/technology/201…
Faceblock campaign urges users...
Faceblock campaign urges users...
Vingt Trois SeizeWhy?
Becoz!
OblomovHave you noticed how, exactly as I predicted, the “wait and see, with the hand on the button” Fedi admins willing to give Genocide Inc. the benefit of the doubt still haven't preemptively blocked P92 “Threads” despite Facebook having already shown its inability or more likely unwillingness to moderate their platforms (including the aforementioned Threads) properly when it comes to misinformation and harassment?
#faceblock #fediPact
#faceblock #fediPact
Alan Jenkins@timbray wrote a blog piece about #faceblock as a case study
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/06/24/Fediverse-Governance
"Most Fediverse instances are run by a single person who has essentially dictatorial control, usually a software professional who did the work to set the instance up"
which shouldn't be huge surprise, but worth putting into words.
(fedidb used to track the total amount of users and MAUs from the instances that signed the #fedipact, but apparently @dansup removed the tracker.)
What's your threshold for medium/large? Of the instances I know are on the #faceblock, the instance I'm on has a couple thousand users and ~400 MAUs, and mastodon.bida.im has 20K users and 1.6K MAUs
Les capsules du prof Lutz
Tim BrayYour prediction: Will's Meta’s “Threads” product actually engage in ActivityPub-based federation, or will that idea be postponed and eventually forgotten?
Will federate.
Will forget.
Poll ended at .
Hey, I posted a blog piece ⬆️ about #faceblock as a case study in #fediverse governance over the long weekend, and I learned… never post anything you want people to read over a long summer weekend. Anyhow, for people who care about the subject and had the good taste to be out in the sun over the weekend, here ya go.
deutrinoMeta looks to target Twitter with a rival app called Threads
Meta is poised to unveil a new app that appears to mimic Twitter — a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by Elon Musk.
A listing for the app, called Threads, appeared on Apple’s App Store, indicating it would debut as early as Thursday.
https://apnews.com/article/meta-twitter-threads-app-social-media-d169d160ea179ecc405b6cbf51e0f9f3
Meta looks to target Twitter with a rival app called Threads
Meta is poised to launch a new app that appears to mimic Twitter, marking a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk. A listing for the app, called Threads, appeared on Apple’s App Store, indicating it would debut as early as Thursday. It's billed as a “text-based conversation app” that's linked to Instagram. The listing teases a Twitter-like microblogging experience. Instagram users will be able to keep their user names and follow the same accounts on the new app. Threads could be the latest headache for Musk, who has faced backlash over new daily limits on the number of tweets that users can read.