Pseudomichael 🍺So, wait, remind me why I should ever use FB/Twitter ever again? What are they giving me for the value they extract from me? Anything I can't find elsewhere without being harvested for crappy targeted ads?
pettter ✅@pseudomichael Just in case this is actually a serious inquiry:
Not everyone on Twitter/Facebook is on OStatus (yet - pushing for federation isn't a bad idea).
It's kinda hard to share video.
App support is lacking for OStatus
Some/most instances are kinda slow, and federation isn't exactly immediate (though this is a shared problem with Twitter/Facebook, they're just better at hiding it).
DMs aren't there yet.
The Facebook/birdsite UX/UI isn't half bad, and has a lot of things still missing on most OStatus instances There's _years_ of research and work by multimillion teams that's gone into those things, and it shows if you know where to look.
Outreach for organisations, bands, photographers, artists, writers, politicians etc. etc. etc. is magnitudes larger and easier on FB/birdsite.
Still, it's definitely up to you if your data is worth all that.
The Gibson