I’d rather Suck and Elmo fight to the death, bare-knuckle, preferably mutually fatal. Would sell tons of ad time on a struggling media platform, or on a new upstart! Win-win!
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… I always get that one mixed up with Testament
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If individual series of messages are called Threads, wouldn’t it make more sense to call the platform “Sheet”?
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since threads together make ( and as slang means ) clothing… may i suggest a different word?
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Could be shee-it?
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I’m not watching that clip, I’ve seen the original once, that was enough.
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A feel-good romp if ever there was one!
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If Threads isn’t legal in EU due to privacy regulations, what happens when they switch on ActivityPub and are connected with EU Fediverse users and instances?
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Something for all ages in that one.
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More like:
Amirite?
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Twitter just shot itself in the foot by only allowing logged-in users to view tweets, but isn’t that the Meta SOP? I can get a taste of Instagram, but am quickly booted out for not logging in, Facebook much the same. Perhaps they don’t need the SEO as much as Twitter did?
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That’s a great write up. It crystallizes the things that bothered me about fedi that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. I hadn’t tried it yet and I guess I won’t now. Much like that author, I’ve landed on “no social media” rather than “different social media” in the wake of all mainstream social media turning evil.
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I’m in a similar boat, though I can’t say I’m at no social media yet. I still log into FB and Twitter for very, very short periods just to check specific people. But the BBS and a few Discord servers are basically all I do for regular online socials and my emotional state is far better for it.
It is a little sad when I think about logging into MOOs and MUDs in the 90s and all the things I thought the internet would be good for in those naive and youthful days.
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Pros of thread: much like facebook before it (wayyy back when it first became a thing), it’s giving that immediate “everyone is on here” feeling that other things like mastodon didn’t.
Cons: so far there doesn’t seem to be a way to sort posts by people you actually follow. (You can do that on Instagram so not sure why it’s not a thinking there) I’ve seen posts and then lost them. Unless you go look up a specific person’s profile it’s like you’ll never find a post you’ve seen ever again… unless im missing something.
I have no love for mark Z but I hate Elon musk more and would love to see this (or any other platform not run by a right wing trrolll) be a nail in the coffin of Twitter.
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If, probably not hypothetically, Team Zuck were interested in working in bad faith what does no EU launch actually mean?
Is there a particular standard for how hard you need to try at geoblocking in order to convince Brussels that you aren’t playing games with them? Is there no particular standard but playing games with Brussels isn’t allowed so you have an incentive to heed their ongoing assessments of your attempt? No actual requirements at all; but EU residents who slip in can gain various private causes of action that can’t just be EULAed away so you have an incentive to keep them out?
I’d assume that no EU launch means that if you do a zero-effort attempt to get in from a phone on an EU carrier geolocated to somewhere in the EU with an apple ID tied to payment information from a bank in an EU member state you’ll get nothing; but I’m curious what the incentives are in terms of facebook either genuinely trying to avoid EU users bringing regulatory hassles or tacitly encouraging EU instagram users to VPN their way to a non-EU IP for 10 minutes to get in on the cool new hotness.
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