There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.
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I made a mistake, it was Fosstodon. They told Meta to fuck off. https://hub.fosstodon.org/assets/images/meeting-with-meta-email.webpMastodon is 100% a competitor to #Meta, and if I were #Mastodon, I would watch my back since everything Meta does is only for the benefit (or the endgame is) for themselves and their market share. Best case scenario would for Meta to extinguish Mastodon and have everyone go to #threads.
I do not understand why Mastedon is downplaying the very likely scenario of Meta EEE’ing the shit out of ActivityPub once they get people to migrate to Threads
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I see no way they aren’t a competitor. Meta is a company. Companies exists to make money. Meta makes money by driving engagement and then monitizing via ads or user data sale for others to target ads.
Like are we all supposed to pretend a company, Meta of all companies, is an altruistic entity? Because that’s not how it works… At all.
Remove corporations from social networks.
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if you believe meta is going to act in the best interest of the fediverse, and not try to fuck it over, then please kindly remove your head from your ass.
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This is true with Kbin and Lemmy, and Mastodon instances but Meta doesn’t have that mindset. They are going to have ads and are going to see users not on their instance as eyes that rightfully belong to them that are not set on those ads.
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I understand all the fear around meta. However on federated platforms, is all competition not a good thing?
Also I have to imagine the overlap between the type of people currently on federated platforms, and those willing to use any platform made by meta is rather slim.
Also what do you think about the comparisons with XMPP?
Just curious to hear your thoughts
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ChatGPT summary of the blog post:
Here is a summary of the blog:
- Threads are a way to organize conversations on Mastodon, a decentralized social network.
- Threads allow users to reply to specific posts and create branching discussions that are easy to follow and participate in.
- Threads can be public or private, depending on the visibility settings of the original post and the replies.
- Users can view threads by clicking on the reply icon of any post, or by using the “Show thread” option in the menu.
- Users can also join or leave threads by using the “Follow thread” or “Unfollow thread” options in the menu.
- Threads are a powerful feature that enhance the user experience and foster community engagement on Mastodon.
- Mastodon and Threads will likely be able to communicate with each other once Threads supports federation, but it will depend on the server operators’ choices. Mastodon users can always switch servers or self-host if they want more control.
- Threads will not be able to impose their moderation policies on other servers, and that each server will have its own rules and tools. Mastodon servers can block specific content from Threads if they want to.
- Mastodon welcomes the adoption of ActivityPub by large platforms, as it validates the decentralized social web and enables users to switch platforms more easily. This creates more competition and pressure for better services.
Any way you could consider not littering threads with shitty tldrs?
Ok, my bad. Blame ChatGPT for the shittyness though.
This isn’t reddit though dude.
People are here to learn and engage. You’re not contributing towards that goal and it sorta comes across as a cheap karma grab. Which I know I am not here for. Seems like many aren’t either.
I think we would all just prefer to hear your thoughts, opinions, and contributions to the discussion rather than doing what you’re doing.
Just my two cents.
Thank you for the reply and feedback, I’m not lost and know what site this is.
I think AI language models are dumb, but fascinating; I do not truly care about meaningless karma here since it doesn’t matter to me personally.
I’m very confident no one here wants to read the confounding stupidity of my opinion, so I will limit my replies to impactful comments henceforth.
Your two cents are really worth profoundly more, thank you.
If I wanted an AI summary I’d have done it myself. I’m here to read comments from and talk to actual humans.
Stop that. This is helpful to nobody.
That’s a pretty poor summary. It’s not all that much shorter than the blog post itself. Could you tell the AI to be much more concise?
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Cuck Zuck sure loves his sloppy seconds, picking up the half-eaten Twitter remains Musk’s been dropping.
I’m just rubbernecking here anyway—not really a microblogging fan—but I hope those that need to remain vigilant with respect to EEE do so. My dude Zuck made a losing bet on VR instead of LLM, but he still has the capital to do damage elsewhere. Let’s not forget this choice quote:
I’m still pretty much “wait and see” on this. A lot of folks are predicting gloom and doom, but also have a lot of good points. Meta shouldn’t be trusted in general, but they also haven’t done anything yet - they haven’t even implemented ActivityPub yet.
I think it’s more they’re trying to make a Twitter-killer then kill Mastodon from the inside. They want people on their site so they can show them ads, and they want to get those people from Twitter. ActivityPub integration is another feature they can use to get attention.
A company exists to make money - period. I struggle to see why Meta making money off ActivityPub is a good thing.
There’s just no good reason to have a profit motive in social media when it simply doesn’t need to be there.
TLDR: Mastodon trying their damndest to rationalize taking the money.
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That’s not actually the tl;dr in my opinion, but others should decide for themselves.
Whats your source on “taking the money”, by the way?
Will a large platform like Meta joining Mastodon overwhelm smaller servers?
This could be interesting for Kbin, it’s true that Mastodon shouldn’t see an influx of Threads only content, but the Microblog for Kbin may be overwhelmed, since it’s followed by tag, at least how I’m using it, not user
Kbin tags work the same way. Every person you see in the microblog tag is directly followed by someone on Kbin.
I have purposely been going out and following interesting Mastodon accounts from Kbin to ensure that they’re being brought over into the Kbin feed and put into the proper magazines.
