đď¸ Volker Weber (@vowe@social.heise.de)
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Instagram Threads vs Mastodon. Looks like an easy choice.
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The folks using Threads have their thing.
We here in the Fediverse have our thing.
I like our thing just fine.
Sure, for people who pay attention and / or care. But sadly I think the real comparison with be:
Ease to get started:
Mastodon - Learn what a server is, find a server, create an account.
Threads - Just download it. You probably already have an account without realising.
Itâs going to do well.
Sure, itâs mostly going to be celebs, brands and âcontent creatorsâ but thatâll still mean a lot of people. And folks will go where the people are.
Personally, Iâm hoping BlueSky just dish out 10 invites per user and bring in people to that infrastructure. It looks like a good middle ground between fediverse and simple Twitter experience.
Anything owned by a corporation im not touching. Itâs pretty simple⌠Fediverse is dope as fuck why I need anything else?
I honestly canât understand how any app can justify those kinds of permissions
Tried threads and not feeling it. It is buggy and timeline is uncontrollable. I am disturbed by how many people are flocking to it though.
Same, itâs like weâre watching from the sideline seeing all of the sheep going head fast off the cliff.
yeah but threads has advertising and corporate money backing it up checkmate library
for real though my greatest fear is that threads devouring the fediverse regardless of how much of a dumpster fire it is
As long as instances defederate from them we should be just fine. I already know Beehaw is defederating from them so weâre good here, and the instance of mastodon Iâm on isnât federating with them. So just look up your instanceâs stance on the subject and join one thatâs making the right call. Then you know the communities youâre building wonât get Zucked
yeah thats what I plan on doing! I hope youâre right and Iâm just being paranoid. thankfully a lot of other instances are defederating from threads too⌠hopefully itâll be enough at least to keep a small part of the community safe
optimistically, the fact that zuck is even trying to take over the fediverse means he sees it as a threat. weâve been already doing well enough without their âhelpâ and it scares him
Even if thereâs only one instance thatâs not federated with them it would be enough for a community, not as active sure, but it would be enough. We already have hundreds not federating with them! We wonât have their user count but thatâs okay, we donât need billions of users like the centralized platforms to survive. Weâll be alright, take a breather and enjoy your stay in the fediverse free of corpos đ
On that note, because thereâs no ads/monetization we have to donate to support the server so make sure youâre helping to support the instances you use (if youâre able.)
yeah! Youâre right đđ! and Iâm so happy to see it.
donations are important too! id like to donate more when I can eventually when I am more stable (in the most general term). one day
Iâm in a similar boat, past couple months have been rough on the finances with some unexpected expenses so I havenât been able to donate yet but plan to after my situation settles down again. Such is life.
Good luck, see you around the fediverse đ
Does anyone know which of the permissions are actually enforced to be able to use the app?
It is asking for everything, but you need to give explicit permission for most of those.
Canât you just decline and still use the app, essentially giving the same data as any other social media app?
I think⌠who caresâŚ
I lasted about 3 minutes on Threads
First post - someone throws a phone at drake
Second post- âIâm going to the shops anyone want anything?â
Third post - Netflix Uk memeing on insta friends seeing your Twitter persona.
And deactivated
What, no rights to your firstborn? Metaâs really not upping their game.