Threads is Instagram. Instagram is Facebook. Facebook is Meta. Meta is Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook was complicit in a literal genocide.
Meta is a surveillance capitalist that exploits you for profit.
Mark Zuckerberg straight up called you “dumb fucks” for trusting him.
What’s it going to take for you to not help these assholes continue to fuck people over?
@aral it’s insane how much traffic they’ve already gotten given their history.
But, it’s easy to convince people to sign up when so many other people you know will sign up.
This right here. People will “follow” other people. I was just saying to people in RL about how I wish it was easier for folks to understand the Fediverse. “Things” I want to follow won’t come here. And yes, I know we don’t want some people and some things, but we can block them and/or their instances. So I would rather see more come here than not.
Anyways, I wish people could see the same that most on here already know.
It’s also the fact that the people joining Threads are (mostly) folks already on some part of the Meta platform.
Saying Meta is awful for privacy and ethically isn’t compelling to folks who’ve already given their privacy away and are overlooking ethical issues.
@bennysp @aral @DBHorbert exactly! They’re already in that ecosystem so it’s not a hard sell.
Even new people are likely coming from Twitter, so they’re used to big tech
@DBHorbert @niceglutes @aral yep. I mean, I will shamefully admit that I am there (I was there many years before I really understood this issue). But you are right. They (I) sold to the devil so what’s a little bit more.
Well for me, I am hoping to learn and nothing more. I want to remain here on the true Fediverse.
What’s it going to take for you to not help these assholes [Facebook, Instagram, Meta, by extension, #Twitter.] continue to fuck people over?
Me? I abandoned those media a few years ago. I paid attention, and likely so did everyone reading this post.
Others: Foster awareness. If you're a #writer, get the real information into an article or #novel or #screenplay. If you are a #photographer, take a satirical #photo and post it on-platform and elsewhere. If you are a #videographer... an #artist... Until people who don't pay attention like we do get jolted, they won't switch (†).
Those that get what they want from it: Nothing so long as they get what they want. Figure a way to make it so they don't get what they want.
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(†) Keep in mind that a #FB, Twit, #Insta, etc. alternative may seem so difficult to set up, like #Mastodon is for many mundanes. If they can't grok it they won't switch. In which case, write better SIMPLE bootstraps for mundanes.
#boostingIsSharing #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #writing #writers
Attached: 1 image People focus on niceness of Fediverse. It's great but not the most beneficial quality in my view. It's the capacity here for people to properly consider information coming from others they disagree with. Fediverse has best success rate at following this tenet of any larger social network / online community I've seen. It's pretty awesome actually. Optimistic for #2023 #Fediverse #Mastodon Better communication leads to better society, less extremism, better politics & more effective solutions.
@Okanogen You literally wrote that on an alternative :)
(And there are others folks are working on, including myself.)
Some people genuinely like to be fucked over....it gives them something to 'legitimately' whine about as they have nothing better to do.
I can't think of any other (sane) explanation.
edit: Added CW.
@bjornbjorn Thanks, Bjørn. And hopefully doing more than just talking about it. Fingers crossed what I’ve been working on will start becoming more visible this year as some of the higher-level pieces start getting released :)
https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
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What's the best way to avoid helping them?
Because I want (and need) the bigger network but I don't want to hand my data to Zuckerberg,
So I need at least some instances to federate to protect my data.
Full support for the instances that defederate too. I hope they survive being flooded with angry posts demanding that the fediverse become a monolith.
@duco You made one possible case in your post, which, if accepted at face value (not that I believe it would be given that it is a separate product – if it wasn’t why would it need to have a separate name/have different features/exist separately to Instagram?), could enable Meta to sidestep the antitrust regulation (“it’s not a different product so we are not using our monopoly position anticompetitively”).
My point was that that’s the sort of argument an advocate would make.
The ability to get Meta's data without giving them any of mine, by being able to follow people on Threads without being on Threads.
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