But I don’t WANT control over what I see online, I need to have a constant feed of garbage thrown in my face at all times!
Garbage that’s designed to alter my mood to keep me longer on the platform. Please, give me more of that!
Why is there a mouse in top left?
The same thing that is happening between reddit and lemmy is happening between twitter and nostr.
Human beings (a minority at least) will always seek freedom first and foremost.
I invite you to discover the wonderful community of nostr!
Literally this, or the Web3 BS Bluesky.
What’s wrong with Bluesky? 🤔
What the hell is Bluesky?
Another Twitter alternative
Please tell us why it had to hide away for so long (so long)?
The guy that is one of the main creators of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, made Bluesky. It’s a Twitter alternative that I believe is still invite only. It’s funny, when Bluesky officially started allowing people to use it, Twitter was abuzz with excitement and people posting memes about begging for access. Those select few that did get in early were going on and on about how awesome it is and how it was like old Twitter.
Then Threads drops without the invite barrier automatically adding everyone with an Instagram account and I haven’t heard a fuckin peep about Bluesky in weeks.
Threads got rid of the invite barrier so hard they already created an account for everyone and even thier friends thatve never used it.
Last I heard their invite only platform already had a Nazi problem.
Isn’t that going to be a problem with any type of federated site?
yes, but if your platform is invite only and already has a nazi problem I dont see that as a “good look.” Its not like the nazis can go to a public sign up page in that case, someone had to invite a nazi.
Not sure why you’re making things up. Anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders gets mass blocked and bullied off the platform.
ok I’ll take your word for it, not like I plan on using the twitter guy’s second twitter either way.
It’s founder circle is fully made by Web3 Crypto Scam people.
Bluesky is at least federated, no?
Using their own new protocol that no one else uses and they probably don’t even implement themselves yet.
The only thing I liked about bluesky was that i could use my domain as my handle…seemed cool.
Except it’s actually “mastodon but bigger userbase” People generally don’t care with social media being privacy invasive. Moreso, a famous company behind the app might actually automatically spell “better” for most))
let them take baby steps
Shameless self promotion and brands or furries talking infosec.
If that’s the choice, the furries… But I think there’s starting to be a lot of legit people on Mastodon, no? I just can’t get into the whole following people thing though, it’s just all so…public… [Shuffles back into the dark anonymous safety of Lemmy]
I can barely find anything in Arabic on the fediverse, but on threads I can find all the relevant and local posts I want in Arabic
And the fact that threads will be compatible with the fediverse make the mastodon’s user: 😁 😁
I feel like I’m the only one that doesn’t mind people joining threads. It gets more people to join the fediverse (a good thing), which not only introduces more people to the fediverse (potentially with them moving to other instances) but also potentially gets more people to set up their own personal instances for themselves OR a group of family/friends
I agree with you. Lemmy is way too aggressive about this.
I got downvoted for saying that over in !unpopularopinion so I guess that makes it either a popular opinion or a really unpopular opinion
Unfortunately Facebook will most likely pursue their usual goals of mass user attraction, followed by user domestication and enshittification. They’ll try to attract as many Fediverse users to Threads as possible, then slowly make it a shittier and shittier experience to use Threads unless you have an account there or something, and their federation will get worse and worse until they’ll just split off, but this time taking a shit-ton of Fediverse people with them (who will now likely have higher switching costs due to the network effects exploited by Facebook). Not to mention that Threads will be trying to collect as much data about everyone as possible (including those who just have an account on a federated instance), and will probably try to send out ads to federated instances.
It’s possible that Threads will attract more people to the Fediverse. It’s at least as likely that Threads will end up pulling people from the Fediverse, and into an eventual walled garden.
I feel you.
But considering that the majority of instances have already blocked threads, there would not be much of a fediverse to federate with anyway once/if they do.
That’s the depressing reality that could risk killing the fediverse.
If the fediverse has to join with Zuck to live, it’s better off dead.
You spoke my mind exactly.
Hasn’t it already been established that threads would most likely deathhug most of the fediverse? It’s content would be overwhelming and nothing could keep up with it. I’d rather have the fediverse be a more small scale, cozy and niche place*.
In that case you can always use an instance that defederated threads
People using threads wont make their instances and will fill the fediverse with low quality content.
Kinda refuse to believe that every single person on threads is going to post low quality content. I’d argue that content made by a bunch of people not constantly thinking about the fediverse will help the fediverse. Let’s be honest, lots of the content posted on fediverse apps are somewhat forced because we all want this to work.
It weirds me out that the discussion has moved to “quality of content” when that wasn’t the problem with Meta/Facebook embracing the “federation” (ActivityPub).
The problem that got people worked up is that there’s a history of big companies stepping in, benefitting from open protocols, and then essentially hi-jacking them. A common example would be Google doing it with XMPP, but similar things have happened, not to protocols, but to FOSS in the past. Like with Oracle buying SUN and essentially killing OpenOffice, causing people to fork it to LibreOffice to continue the product.
You also saw it a lot in the early days of the web, with the “browser wars” where Microsoft behind closed doors, added features to HTML and JS that other browsers then had to rush to implement. Companies have done it to one another too, Microsoft reverse-engineered AOL’s AIM to make MSN Messenger compatible with their protocol, so AIM and MSN users could chat. AIM didn’t like this, and it resulted in a long back and forth, until Microsoft uncovered that AIM was using a secutity exploit in the AIM client to authenticate, and eventually acted whistleblower on this.
Facebook/Meta doesn’t want the federation, they just want the users, or more accurately their data. They’ll happily federate and contribute until they feel like they’ve gotten enough from it, at which point they’ll pull the plug.
Threads is the narcissism of Instgrammers and the psychopathy of Twitterers
Federation is so confusing! Why can’t I just sign up at facebook.com where the rest of the internet is? You guys and your cryptofederatedarkweb.
yes, that is exactly what the Internet should be, with full VR…
Instructions unclear; dick in toaster.
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I’m using the Thunder app to access my lemmy.world account. Is Mastodon also Lemmy? Can I browse lemmy.world and mastodon at the same time? I’m so new and vv confused.
Not really.
They’re both fediverse, but one is designed to follow communities, and the other is designed to follow people. A Mastodon user sees a community as a user, and can thus subscribe to it. There’s not really a way for a Lemmy user to do the inverse and subscribe to a user.
If you want a platform that does both (can subscribe to both communities and users), check out Kbin.
Of topic, but wtf is that logo?
Sure, it’s a tangled thread, but is that it?
It looks like it could be a C or E, but that doesn’t seem meaningful.
It’s an @.
Pretty easy to figure out. Everyone only uses it for everything.Is this a bit? It’s an @ sign with the weird lowercase a most fonts use.
