Mastodawn

Aral Balkan Dec 17, 2023

Those of you caught up debating the technical minutiae of federating with Threads are missing the forest for the trees.

This is about one thing: Affording social capital to/normalising/legitimising Meta/Facebook/surveillance capitalism (and thereby delegitimising those who oppose them).

Hey, if the author of Mastodon thinks Meta/Facebook/Instagram/surveillance capitalism is socially acceptable there must be something wrong with you if you don’t.

So thanks for that, Eugen.

(Yes, I’m livid.)

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Simon Lucy

@aral

I'm not sure if it legitimises anything, at the moment it's not much more than a RSS subscription to individuals I don't know with an address I don't know.

If and when they join the dots and threadz users can follow other federated users and vice versa, what content can Meta push and what behaviours can they track that any other platform couldn't otherwise?

After all, it's by and large public.