Bc of ads?
Ads are mostly fine, the web is broken because of platforms.
Like there’s only a handful of sites the entire planet uses and they’re all owned by like 4 tech giants (and Reddit)
Oracle is like Apple but for b2b.
Everything is vendor lock in and very expensive.
They don’t treat their employees particularly well.
They don’t like adhering or supporting standards.
I remember a quote once that being evil was actually their business model.
Truth be told they’re probably just as evil as anywhere else, they’re just very loud about it.
There’s a chip shortage.
Most people just use web based apps, so stay on their phones / cheap laptops
Enthusiasts usually just build their own machines.
Everything is more expensive.
The list goes on
Sure, but now those people just won’t join the fediverse
How do you figure? What persona of user is there that would have joined an independent instance but join threads instead? The fediverse itself has no draw, besides being more independent.
And that’s different than now, how? Every fediverse platform is essentially implementing features that large social media giants have had for years.
This is true, but what’s the problem with that? Most fediverse users were accustomed to large amounts of content from other platforms and left (or at least also use the fediverse) the only downside would be giving meta more data, but they can just scrape that same data from the fediverse anyway. All they need to do is quietly set up a private instance and set a bot account on that instance to follow everything from every instance it could find.
Someone in another thread mentioned that they would likely display ads near content from independent instances, and that’s a good point imo.
They’d be directly making a profit off of private instances, which would be fucked up.
I hear a lot of talk of EEE too, which is a legitimate worry also. there must be a way to accept the first 2 Es without the extinguish. I’m hoping the admin community is thinking about that more than “meta evil” when defederating threads.
Everything is art if you think about it enough and make it sound pretentious.
This image is a sly commentary on the current technology trends juxtaposed with memes of the past. Showing how technology can breathe new life into outdated trends or some shit.
If you’re in the know, sure, but if the fediverse interacts with threads we could expose literally billions of people to the larger fediverse.
Maybe while the fediverse is still getting it’s legs defederating is the move, but I mean literally billions of people being made aware of the fediverse would be amazing.
Bc of ads? Ads are mostly fine, the web is broken because of platforms. Like there’s only a handful of sites the entire planet uses and they’re all owned by like 4 tech giants (and Reddit)