Originally published at: Zuckerberg's Twitter alternative, Threads, to launch thursday as part of Instagram | Boing Boing
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Going from one private corporate social media platform completely controlled by a capricious edgelord billionaire to one completely controlled by a robotic billionaire who sees users as feedstock isn’t going to be much of an improvement, especially since both billionaires have little problem with allowing Nazis to use their platforms. I wish the federated, de-centralised platforms had taken the opportunity to pull in new users when they could, but with this garbage and Bluesky I fear that moment has passed.
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No matter how much I love the idea of the Fediverse, it hasn’t overcome the shortcomings of UX when compared to a centralized system designed to entice users, and it will for the foreseeable future be an uphill slog to recruit. Most people don’t seem willing to give up ease of use in order to avoid any future enshittification.
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This is an unfortunate truth. My bar is always “can I explain this to my sister” (who is not tech savvy). She understands Twitter. I can barely explain Mastadon to myself, never mind her.
As for Threads, my “meh” is very large. I won’t be installing that.
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I don’t really want Threads to succeed but I do hope it wins over just enough converts to finish off Twitter.
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I am pretty tech savvy, and I couldn’t figure out Mastadon enough to make it useful for me.
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I really hope everyone who finally freed themselves from their Twitter addiction isn’t foolish enough to turn right around and start the whole thing over again. But they probably will.
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Some of the stuff about Twitter going down the toilet is out of date after the weekend, but the stuff about the flaws of fedi is still spot on.
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Meta’s new Twitter rival wants to suck Instagram users’ data, including health, location, search history and sensitive information, into the new Threads service. Under EU data privacy rules, it faces higher hurdles than in the US or UK, where it is launching on Thursday.
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I want Musk to fail, but I don’t want Zuckerberg to succeed.
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Two man enter, no man leave!
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I finished reading Dragonflight a couple weeks ago. Threads aren’t exactly something we should be welcoming…
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Before Meta is inevitably defederated for being Meta, I wonder if the fediverse will end up sucking away a lot of their users?
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I’m OK with not everyone using the fediverse. It’s filling up with good people as far as I have seen. I’ve been on since April of last year and it’s never seemed empty. I find it much more engaging than Twitter. I joined a fairly big instance, but when one opened up for my region, I switched. Unless the fediverse gets crushed, I see no reason to try Threads or any other profit-driven, privacy-violating, hate-tolerant advertising medium.
Mastodon or Kbin or Pixelfed, etc. don’t have to be bigger than other services, they just have to work well enough for the people that use them. Mastodon, in particular, just seems to keep growing despite all the articles that say it will never win. It doesn’t have to “win,” it just has to not die.
If people you know want to try Mastodon, tell them to join the server you use. It will save them the trouble of deciding which one to use. That’s the biggest hurdle, apparently.
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You beat me to it. “He’s done it. He’s really done it.”
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