There was a time when the typical redditor was a geek and weirdo 😅

I see. But won’t it be more like Microblogging and not have any communities like Lemmy? I guess we’ll have to see…

That’s a fair point.

Entirely possible, yes.

Okay, if it’ll never enable federation then all our discussions are obsolete!

And how will this extinguish the fediverse? We’ll still all be here, won’t we?

More people isn’t always good. But imagine some organizations and journalists that for whatever reason still are on Twitter can now be persuaded to sign up to Threads. Well, now they’re in the fediverse.

And if the content from Threads is overwhelmingly bad we can always defederate and the fediverse still isn’t destroyed.

So, how do I picture the extinguish part?

Yes, people are panicking because Meta is coming for us. They’re taking two opportunities with one strike:

1. fill the void that Twitter is starting to create
2. profit from the buzz around the fediverse

At the end of the day, more people in the fediverse is a win in my book. And if it becomes a problem there’s always defederation as a last resort.

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I mean, are companies really paying attention to user needs? Lol

Look, the user needs to see stuff that keeps them engaged. That keeps them coming back for more. Algos are designed to achieve exactly that. Your self chosen bubble of followings and interests may not be optimized for engagement and addiction.

No, the companies don’t pay attention to user needs, they pay attention to the bottom line.

sometimes I miss giving awards like on Reddit…

well, that’s going to change as soon as Threads will be available for federation. Then you can use Mastodon and be in direct contact with all the folks from the Meta-verse.

How is this legally binding? I still remember when people posted similar stuff all over Facebook. It means nothing.

Yes, those are good points!

To piggyback on that Linux analogy: if ActivityPub becomes as essential of a backbone to the internet as we know it as Linux servers are then the transformation has happened IMO.

Truly insane

Yeah, I’m still baffled by the fact that all these officials are still on Twitter.

The problems most often experienced by the participants included: “the system was slow,” “the system froze temporarily,” “the system crashed,” “it is difficult to find things.”

In case you were wondering what computer problems.