But Mastodon is built on a technology stack almost as old as Twitter’s, and has largely failed to achieve widespread adoption despite several mass-exoduses from Twitter. BlueSky is more promising, using a brand new protocol called AT which promises to let users not only create their own instances of the service, but filter their feeds with custom algorithms, instead of settling for one centrally-controlled “master algorithm” that prioritizes engagement above all else.
- A new protocol that’s not a standard being adopted elsewhere, is not promising, it’s just another protocol. AT protocol is MIT license, but it’s not a standard, ActivityPub is W3C standard.
- Also isn’t creating own instances, something that’s common in fediverse, while, is there any other AT protocol instances that’s not owned by Bluesky?
- And isn’t Bluesky a spinoff from original Twitter? What does she mean by old technology stack? LAMP? Mastodon is built on React, Redux, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, and Postgres. I can’t find any info about BlueSky’s server stack, but it seems like their frontend is using React, and maybe Go.
Am I fucking crazy, or do people just pluck information out of thin air, without any fact checking and call themselves senior journalists? Does she hold any investment in Bluesky?
Does she hold any investment in BlueSky?
Imo, it’s way more likely she got her information about BS from the website/a press release/a contact at BS and like you said, didn’t bother to get a contrasting opinion from anyone associated with Mastodon (probably because it’s a lot harder to get ahold of someone from a distributed project like Mastodon).
So she got BS from BS, what a surprise… This kind of “journalism” drives me nuts, more and more medias owned by idiots with too much money promotes these kind of crap with zero nuance and fact checking :/
So she got BS from BS
To be fair, my guess about the source of those claims is also totally unsubstantiated and quite possibly bullshit 😉
This was something I missed from reddit, the always relevant xkcd
And another article dismissing the fediverse. This people search for a new master that can hold their data hostage
This just means that the site is a bootlicker for capitalism
Honestly surprised there isn’t more. There’s a lot of money that would be lost if the fediverse became more mainstream.
Threads has all your favorite social media users, such as corporate brand accounts, annoying Instagram influencers, and minor internet celebrities who aren’t funny.
What bubble does the author live in where this is considered standout journalism? Like, congratulations on discovering the internet. What rock have they been living in since 1995?
The rock where they think people can’t tell the difference between a press release and journalism
Not really. Privacy wise it’s terrible, but user experience is pretty alright I’d say for a microblogging platform. In fact I feel like it’s going to threaten the fediverse by being open at first and then slowly closing up and locking people in, creating an image where all the other nodes should be part of meta’s fediverse and follow certain rules, etc.
Related content. https://beehaw.org/post/719121
This article is “How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)” and it tells you how Googled killed a federated protocol for instant messaging, XMPP, by the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish process.
I don’t see that connection. XMPP wasn’t big before and it wasn’t big after. XMPP is still not big. But it also still exists and is still used.
I think what Google achieved with the usage of XMPP was not some EEE tactics, just as I don’t see Threads extinguishing ActivityPub. I think they use open standards as a way to calm regulatory bodies. “Hey look, we have no evil in mind, we use open standards and allow others to play along.” Then once they are out of the spotlight, they can slowly defederate again and be a proprietary beast.
Users who leave other fediverse instances to join Threads (or back then Talk) would have also left if they never federated in the first place, simply because they have the bigger network and all their friends are there. The difference is, that they had a relatively brief period of time where you could actually keep communicating with friends without leaving the fediverse.
That is a great article. Everyone here should click over and read that one!
seconded! this one was excellent
Bad article. Not worth the read.
this article doesn’t really make it sound any different than twitter other than not allowing porn
That’s kinda the point, it’s trying to be Twitter but “brand-safe”.
twitter already seems pretty brand safe judging by all the brands on it though.
Twitter lost a staggering amount of its advertising revenue.
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That fact that they made it natively in jetpack compose on android is actually really cool
Stupid article. Threads at the moment is much better than Twitter.
The article reads as if it could have been written a month ago. My Threads timeline (albeit currently algorithmic) has settled into just accounts (news, tech, sports) I follow. Twitter is toast.
I mean there’s no Elon, which is the worst part of Twitter so…no
Zuckerberg is just as insidious, but further under the radar. I don’t know which lizardperson I like less.
Exactly!!! How are people just giving him a pass all the sudden? Have we forgotten who’s behind these apps and their track record with dealing with user data?
