This isn’t new, interesting or noval information. If you run whats app from the desktop app or from web.WhatsApp.com on you’re browser on a PC then no shit they know your on your PC
Why does it matter if the people I’m chatting with know if in onnmy PC?
Mozilla Relay is also a good option
Email has been around for what, 50 years? I guess that makes me a brand new concept too.
Home Owners Authority, CW was a TV channel.
It’s not going to be a centralized platform though…
Hey, language evolves with time, Boomer is becoming synonymous with Luddite.
Boomer is slowly evolving into Luddite in it’s usage if you were not aware.
I’ve always imagined federation would allow service providers to own their communication channels. Municipalities, state agencies, etc.
It’s about the network effect. As it stands now, the network effect is built on the backs of many different nodes on the network all contributing together.
But as you’ve seen, the amount of people on the network is nothing compared to the total of all the Threads users (~30mil). Once they federate with the rest of the network they will provide a MASSIVE boost to it’s enharent value. As people from other instances connect with friends, brands and public figures and alert services on Threads they are slowly becoming dependent on that content.
The users on Threads are not going to be as privacy or technology curious. Almost all of them will be existing Instagram users. They’re not going to move to another instance, especially if they can’t keep using the threads app, which could have features the other instances don’t support.
Almost all social media platforms have this network effect because they were first and/or strategically built their network.
Facebook utilized Universities, requiring uni email address to register and they had features that made it easy to connect with your classmates. Once they hit a critical mass they opened it public.
Twitter piggy backed off of the 2007 SXSWi conference. Displaying pubic Twitter feeds from users at the event on large LCD TVs, they connected users with a similar occupation and intrist. Sending their tweets per day from 20,000 to 60,000.
Threads is building it’s network on the back of Instagram while also on the back of Twitters failings. They’re co-opting the bad vibes of Elon Musk to syphon users off the platform.
Ultimately, there will be a short term boon in the perceived “value” of the fediverse, and in reality, Threads and Meta will make up a large percentage of that value. Over time, people will have become accustomed to the content Threads provides and when Meta nolonger needs to be federated, people will leave with them.
Have you seen the content on threads? Not sure I care to have it in my feed.
This conversation you’re having right now is the result of a smaller community of people building something outside the main stream. We have everything to lose from federating with them. All nuanced discourse will fly out the window. All manor critical points of view outside of the mainstream will be shouted down. They don’t need us, and we don’t need them.
It won’t. They have 30mil people on the app already. That’s light-years more then the entire fediverse. The hope is, for meta, is to peal off fediverse users and then close the door behind them leaving the ActivityPub network a ghost town.
Should he though? He’s trying to be a debate pervert on a Lemmy post from his mastodon account. Maybe that’s deliberate, so he doesn’t have to see all the down votes.
The benefit for you is that you will be in a low traffic instance. All the content you load will be loaded from that instance, not lemmy.world. So for you the content loads faster.
Like, I’m replying to you from lemmygrad.ml, and I’m never actually connecting to lemmy.world, and no content is loaded in real time from Lemmy.world. this comment will be synced back to lemmy.world and then synced out to everyone else that’s subscribed.
But if 90% of people are on Lemmy.world then naturally it’s going to run like ass.
For all we know it’s hosted in an old laptop in someone’s basement right?
Sounds like a good time
I think there is an assumption that is rooted in how reddit worked, that votes are anonymous. People operating under that assumption might not like having that blanket ripped off. It would be different if it was up front from the start.