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Isn't it slightly ironic for a post on transparency to be signed "Twitter" as its author instead of some human? Who's speaking at this point? Of course in context of the rest of their missteps it's a tiny thing, but it stands out to me immediately when seeing the post at least.
It is kinda weird that Meta hasnt just copied Twitter while it is down on the mat. They could, they would…
It is kinda weird that Meta hasnt just copied Twitter while it is down on the mat. They could, they would…
[1]: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meta-mull...
> By Twitter so what is that, no one wants to put their name on this?
Isn't it slightly ironic for a post on transparency to be signed "Twitter" as its author instead of some human? Who's speaking at this point? Of course in context of the rest of their missteps it's a tiny thing, but it stands out to me immediately when seeing the post at least.
This is so hilarious that I'm having trouble laughing at it. I can't even describe how funny this is. I love 2023. It's giving science fiction authors a hard time trying to keep up with the absurdity.
What a bizarre time to live in
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This is so hilarious that I'm having trouble laughing at it. I can't even describe how funny this is. I love 2023. It's giving science fiction authors a hard time trying to keep up with the absurdity.
I genuinely can't tell if this comment is meant to be satirical, well done either way.
Reading this thread, I thought this press release was going to be interesting. Instead it seems totally anodyne and reasonable. Imagine being so angry that twitter is going to put its recommendation code on github.
Like if you saw someone casually building a snowman in their front yard you might be inclined to ask, “why are people talking about this? It’s boring. People build snowmen all the time” but behind them their house is burning down.
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Launching a big brand Twitter alternative on top of the existing Fediverse feels to me like it could work incredibly well right now. The obsolute worst thing about the Fediverse (Mastodon et al) right now is the onboarding process. You have to "chose an instance" before you can even start understanding what that's about - and if you chose wrong you might find your instance gets switched off leaving you high and dry i…
> Or... if you're launching something new, why would you launch from a state of zero accounts when you could launch with Fediverse compatibility and have ~10m accounts that your first users can start following straight away? I'd rather build something new and actually have a userbase than be something akin to a subreddit with fleeting users. It will be a lot more hard work, but it's worth it. Also, Mastodon sucks. Th…
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> Or... if you're launching something new, why would you launch from a state of zero accounts when you could launch with Fediverse compatibility and have ~10m accounts that your first users can start following straight away? I'd rather build something new and actually have a userbase than be something akin to a subreddit with fleeting users. It will be a lot more hard work, but it's worth it. Also, Mastodon sucks. Th…
Which is the opportunity. It's unnecessarily complex: so solve that.
Wouldn't it be better and simpler to just revert that trend to how it was before the big tech behemoths put everything behind walled gardens?
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Which is the opportunity. It's unnecessarily complex: so solve that.
It's possible that I'm missing something here, but I'm not sure what's the point of the 'fediverse' is. Looks like a solution looking for a problem, or an overcorrection to the trend from the 2010s to move everything to silos (independent forums -> facebook groups / subreddits / twitter). Wouldn't it be better and simpler to just revert that trend to how it was before the big tech behemoths put everything behind wall…
That's... kind of the point of the fediverse? A decentralized network built on non-proprietary software makes walled gardens and centralization by corporations infeasible. Identity is controlled by the end user.