Threads, a Twitter clone is officially the most rapidly downloaded app in history, gaining 100 million users in 5 days. Yes, using instagram to populate the app played a large part in it's growth, but what's more interesting in the protocol Meta plans to use. Who will come out on top? What about privacy issues? In this episode, we look at the boiling feud between two billionaires. ColdFusion Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ThroughTheWeb Outro Track: https://youtu.be/FKDSwGohnkw ColdFusion/ Burn Water Music:@ColdFusionmusic ColdFusion Socials: https://discord.gg/coldfusion https://facebook.com/ColdFusionTV https://twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV https://instagram.com/coldfusiontv

There is a decent section dedicated to Fediverse towards the end.

  • maegul (he/they)
    9·
    1 year ago

    Best bit was the snippet of Nilay Patel (Editor of THe Verge), saying that the internet is going through some sort of reset, like 2011 and not like last year at all. Splintering of big social, news and government institutions re-emphasising their own home pages and email accounts (so funny how email still reigns so supreme still), on which the rise of European Governments establishing their own servers on the fediverse is important here. And, of course, he points out how decentralised social is attractive to companies because it allows them to essentially have less responsibility.