Playing Atari2600 on a device the size of my phone isn't like the old days. But them again I dont have Coke in a glass bottle, good music on the radio or a drive-in movie either.
I do get a kick out of showing my 6 year old the video games from when I was a kid. That look on her face when she is baffled we even call these video games 😆
There is a group that will leave Twitter to go to Thread because a bunch of celebrities and influencers switch over. Those people dont care about anything related to the Fediverse.
A lot of those who are for this type of stuff are the ones who dont get how these companies make their money. Your life becomes something they can sell to others and you sign up for it.
But hey its totally worth it if Taylor Swift bumps your tweet, right? /s
The difference is that by defederating the only connection they can make is really just a facade. Users could see our posts but not reply or boost or favorite them. It would be like living with ghosts who cant see or interact with you. Makes for a crap experience.
And it also means that Meta can start sending you DMs or tagging mastodon users to push their ads or agenda. Yeah they can see your data but they can't interact with you.
I feel like Threads is a special case. If you're using FB or Insta you're going to use other Meta services. If you got yourself off FB then its easier to not want to get back in bed with Meta. When people jumped ship from twitter we saw a huge percentage come over to Mastodon. There was no Bird company services that they were being pulled back to so the move to Mastodon was easier.
It is quite interesting how games came out in the past that never got updates. Now you install a game and the first thing it does is downloads updates for a day before you can play.
Maybe it was just me but Musk has never seemed like someone who actually understood tech. Just a rich guy who buys up other's work and talks a big game. I knew the second I heard he bought Twitter it was going to crash and burn. He's doing it way faster than I thought possible.
Of course he will eventually say this was all on purposes and not that he is crap at business and tech.
Playing Atari2600 on a device the size of my phone isn't like the old days. But them again I dont have Coke in a glass bottle, good music on the radio or a drive-in movie either.
I do get a kick out of showing my 6 year old the video games from when I was a kid. That look on her face when she is baffled we even call these video games 😆