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    Alert to that shift, Meta promises to eventually link all its platforms to the “fediverse” — scores of other social media sites, whose users’ posts are visible on all sites, and can be liked and replied to across multiple apps.

    All of Meta’s platforms are going to be federated? I’ve only been hearing about this happening with Threads. Does this mean that Facebook and Instagram are going to start using ActivityPub, as well?

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      i mean fingers crossed for that so that maybe we don’t have to use facebook events

      … but also fuck meta

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      Honestly I’m not holding my breath of any of it. I’m firmly in the “I’ll believe it when I see it” camp.

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    Without a chronological feed or a feed of followers only, Threads is cluttered with extraneous content that gets in the way of what users want.

    An article in the FT said this, and the missing direct messaging and hashtag stuff is all geared around the fact that Threads is merely a platform for brands and influencers/content creators. Threads can win since it doesn’t need to make a profit and it’s set up from the start to do revenue splitting.

    Every website is looking at engagement to keep users whilst serving adverts. Before tik-tok that engagement came from socialising and online discussions. The social media era. Post tik-tok it’s literally just scrolling through mindless 10 second videos from small content creators and the directly social side is effectively second rate, and by design.

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    The future really is to promote Mastodon and Lemmy. I didn’t understand for a long time that you can interact with all instances from any server.

    That’s what’s missing in the info that’s commonly available. I seriously thought until recently that each instance is like a phpBB board where you can use a common software (Tapatalk) to interface with different servers, but you meed a separate account for every single instance.

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    Without a chronological feed or a feed of followers only, Threads is cluttered with extraneous content that gets in the way of what users want.

    An article in the FT said this, and the missing direct messaging and hashtag stuff is all geared around the fact that Threads is merely a platform for brands and influencers/content creators. Threads can win since it doesn’t need to make a profit and it’s set up from the start to do revenue splitting.

    Every website is looking at engagement to keep users whilst serving adverts. Before tik-tok that engagement came from socialising and online discussions. The social media era. Post tik-tok it’s literally just scrolling through mindless 10 second videos from small content creators and the directly social side is effectively second rate, and by design.