• Dane@beehaw.org
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    The folks using Threads have their thing.

    We here in the Fediverse have our thing.

    I like our thing just fine.

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    Tried threads and not feeling it. It is buggy and timeline is uncontrollable. I am disturbed by how many people are flocking to it though.

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    Sure, for people who pay attention and / or care. But sadly I think the real comparison with be:

    Ease to get started:

    Mastodon - Learn what a server is, find a server, create an account.

    Threads - Just download it. You probably already have an account without realising.

    It’s going to do well.

    Sure, it’s mostly going to be celebs, brands and ‘content creators’ but that’ll still mean a lot of people. And folks will go where the people are.

    Personally, I’m hoping BlueSky just dish out 10 invites per user and bring in people to that infrastructure. It looks like a good middle ground between fediverse and simple Twitter experience.

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      Anything owned by a corporation im not touching. It’s pretty simple… Fediverse is dope as fuck why I need anything else?

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    Does anyone know which of the permissions are actually enforced to be able to use the app?

    It is asking for everything, but you need to give explicit permission for most of those.

    Can’t you just decline and still use the app, essentially giving the same data as any other social media app?

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    yeah but threads has advertising and corporate money backing it up checkmate library

    for real though my greatest fear is that threads devouring the fediverse regardless of how much of a dumpster fire it is

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      As long as instances defederate from them we should be just fine. I already know Beehaw is defederating from them so we’re good here, and the instance of mastodon I’m on isn’t federating with them. So just look up your instance’s stance on the subject and join one that’s making the right call. Then you know the communities you’re building won’t get Zucked

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        yeah thats what I plan on doing! I hope you’re right and I’m just being paranoid. thankfully a lot of other instances are defederating from threads too… hopefully it’ll be enough at least to keep a small part of the community safe

        optimistically, the fact that zuck is even trying to take over the fediverse means he sees it as a threat. we’ve been already doing well enough without their “help” and it scares him

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          hopefully it’ll be enough at least to keep a small part of the community safe

          Even if there’s only one instance that’s not federated with them it would be enough for a community, not as active sure, but it would be enough. We already have hundreds not federating with them! We won’t have their user count but that’s okay, we don’t need billions of users like the centralized platforms to survive. We’ll be alright, take a breather and enjoy your stay in the fediverse free of corpos 😄

          On that note, because there’s no ads/monetization we have to donate to support the server so make sure you’re helping to support the instances you use (if you’re able.)

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            yeah! You’re right 😭🙂! and I’m so happy to see it.

            donations are important too! id like to donate more when I can eventually when I am more stable (in the most general term). one day

            • Dee@beehaw.org
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              I’m in a similar boat, past couple months have been rough on the finances with some unexpected expenses so I haven’t been able to donate yet but plan to after my situation settles down again. Such is life.

              Good luck, see you around the fediverse 😄

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    I lasted about 3 minutes on Threads

    First post - someone throws a phone at drake

    Second post- “I’m going to the shops anyone want anything?”

    Third post - Netflix Uk memeing on insta friends seeing your Twitter persona.

    And deactivated