Mastodon is already pretty active, and is also part of the fediverse
The unfortunate reality is that unlike us, most of the Twitter users could not care less about making choices, let alone privacy. Twitfaces can’t calm down and talk without going ballistic and you think they’ll willingly look into what federated social media is?
Alot of them are moving though thanks to twitter repeatedly fucking up, I’ve been seeing some artists and such on mastodon recently that were only on twitter before.
People just need to spread the word; there isn’t a marketing campaign or anything for the fediverse after all.
We are the marketing campaign.
“If you can hear this… You ARE the resistance.”
This post is Meta.
On a serious note, can we appreciate Meta’s marketing team for the timing of this announcement. They waited for Twitter to bleed to kick it in the shins.
🥁 ba-dum-tss
Yeah, the timing was on point
Facebook makes a product that squeezes every last drop from your privacy? Nooooooo waaaay!
Ahem. They’re called Meta.
But seriously, fuck anything Zuckerberg owns.
I don’t care what they all themselves, they are always going to be Facebook.
They gave up on the metaverse already so I don’t think that name fits anymore.
I would love to use it as a conduit to drag those I love out of the Facebook/Instagram microcosms.
Adam Mosseri appears to be embracing the idea of Open Federation for Threads; https://www.threads.net/t/CuRtcYTNY3J
“ If you’re wondering why this matters, here’s a reason: you may one day end up leaving Threads, or, hopefully not, end up de-platformed. If that ever happens, you should be able to take your audience with you to another server. Being open can enable that.”
As long as Meta hasn’t Embraced, Extended and Exterminated the fediverse by that point.
installs app
Declines everything
“To use the app You need to allow-”
Uninstalls app
“Instagram owner” just say Meta lol
We all know it’s the Zucc, you don’t gotta lie of omission to kick it.
you lost me at “Instagram”
That’s impossible, Instagram already knows your gps coordinates…
Mastodon is the federated equivalent of twitter the same way lemmy can be considered the federated alternative of reddit. That’s the nice Twitter alternative you are looking for.
This is what I’ve been telling everyone. Don’t go to threads, go to mastodon.
This would be great but most people will not care and sacrifice data for convinence. Wish the government cared as much about us big tech as they did TikTok.
They only attacked TikTok because it’s Chinese, though. Their own data thieves are OK cause they’re buddies.
Of course. That’s my point. All big tech needs to be held to that standard but it doesn’t.
Also calckey is pretty cool too
Is there a way to see recent popular posts? That’s like the only thing missing for me.
No, mastodon is for following people or specific communities… it is specifically NOT for listening to or speaking to the whole world.
Not that you’ve said that, it makes perfect sense for me why mastodon is the way it is.
Ive been using wefwef since the loss of Apollo / reddit, it works pretty well and allows to sort posts or comments accordingly. If you want to see what’s going on right now you can go to your all feed and set it to the most recent posts. Also has a bunch of other sorting options. Like hot and active.
Sounds interesting. I’ll definitely check out if they come up with an app for iOS in the future.
WefWef is an web app, you can already install it on iOS through the browser.
This is so egregiously excessive that Threads can’t launch in the EU (https://m.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-threads-app-in-the-eu-irish-dpc-says-metas-new-twitter-rival-wont-be-launched-here/a1927220337.html)
Honestly, it’s scary. For people that are unaware, there’s an amazing resource on privacy-respecting alternatives to popular services and softwares: https://www.privacyguides.org. They are also on Lemmy if you have any question.
Great, another Meta privacy brea… I mean service I can stay away from.
No no, you were right the first time
Yeah I don’t get why they need all these permissions. Crazy
Because they want it. It’s the main reason why they’ve built the app.
for targeted ads I guess
Why the first reaction frame? Instagram is owned by Meta, of course they’re going to have incredibly invasive data collection policies.
I expected some data collection but to be honest, have not expected as much (especially location etc., although this can be partly deactivated). But maybe I was too trusting in this case 😅
Looks to me that Zuck is trying to compete with Truth Social – no way this garbage will be Federated.
Just no.
Is this the alleged decentralized/federated Twitter app that Facebook has been working on?
Yup, but it’s not even integrated with ActivityPub yet
I read that it wouldn’t be federated to begin with. Which is weird, because then it’s just another silo…
I really liked that show, Silo. I think I’m gonna read the books
