chikorita157 🐰Jul 3, 2023

Yikes, look how much Meta wants to collect from you with their new “Threads" app, which is defederated by most servers.

#threads #meta

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id6446901002

‎Threads, an Instagram app

‎Say more with Threads — Instagram’s text-based conversation app. Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow. Whatever it is you’re interested in, you can follow and connect directly with your favorite creator…

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Show threadRagashingoJul 4, 2023

@chikorita157 Defederation is going to kill Mastodon. Maybe Bluesky or Threads won't gain traction, but something where a handful of admins don't utterly destroy the SOCIAL CONNECTIONS built by their users will come along and be good and this place will cruise along banning each other over increasingly narrow ideals until there is no one left.

Normal users don't want all this crap, they just want to follow friends and have everything work... :(

Show threadΘεία πίτσα 🧀🍕🥓🍅Jul 4, 2023
@Ragashingo @chikorita157 I'm a normal user and I am all pro defederating meta
Show threadRagashingo

@Stinpizzamou @chikorita157 Yeah... no. A normal user is someone who just signs up and uses the platform. You're doing advocacy for complex, platform-level technical features vs unannounced upcoming competitor platforms that 99.999% of humanity doesn't even know exists yet. Which is all pretty cool!

Take some darn pride in being awesome! Just don’t pretend your view point is that of the average user. :)

Jul 4, 2023 at 3:55pmWeb
Show threadΘεία πίτσα 🧀🍕🥓🍅Jul 4, 2023
@Ragashingo @chikorita157 I am awesome, and a normal user. I had extensive talks with other normal users about what meta accessing the fediverse would mean and formed my opinion. That's most fediverse users. If they are here, they know more than what you give them credit