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Re: Threads.net

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Post by ThatPlayer »

leonidasv wrote: post #12
fishpen0 wrote: post #8

Mastodon communities are already coordinating trying to fully defederate threads. This is definitely going to be interesting to watch as a big whale jumps into the fediverse with the intent to profit

That's why nobody takes the 'fediverse' seriously. Threads is not the first server being blocked because moderator x don't like the owner of that server. Imagine if signing up for a @gmail.com email meant that you can't send or receive emails from @outlook.com addresses because the owner is mad at Microsoft. They could have taken this as a big opportunity to make ActivityPub mainstream but nah, let's keep gatekeeping…

I've seen some talk on my feed about servers potentially defederating mastodon.social if they don't defederate with Facebook. And that's "official" server hosted by the project and probably the biggest server. Definitely would make it confusing for those users who just want it to work when they can't interact with users on other servers.

Re: Threads.net

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Post by stingraycharles »

Jtsummers wrote: post #39
stingraycharles wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But I’m already on my iPad and still see this QR code. Is the expectation that I would get my phone out to scan the QR? Is there no iPad app?

Per the app store page it does not appear to have an iPad-specific app or layout. It's just the iPhone layout.

Right, the app store link doesn't appear to open anything for me, so I was wondering what's up. That would explain something.

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Post by [deleted] »

fishpen0 wrote: post #8

Mastodon communities are already coordinating trying to fully defederate threads. This is definitely going to be interesting to watch as a big whale jumps into the fediverse with the intent to profit

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Re: Threads.net

#74

Post by viraptor »

leonidasv wrote: post #12
fishpen0 wrote: post #8

Mastodon communities are already coordinating trying to fully defederate threads. This is definitely going to be interesting to watch as a big whale jumps into the fediverse with the intent to profit

That's why nobody takes the 'fediverse' seriously. Threads is not the first server being blocked because moderator x don't like the owner of that server. Imagine if signing up for a @gmail.com email meant that you can't send or receive emails from @outlook.com addresses because the owner is mad at Microsoft. They could have taken this as a big opportunity to make ActivityPub mainstream but nah, let's keep gatekeeping…

> Imagine if signing up for a @gmail.com email meant that you can't send or receive emails from @outlook.com

This already happens for certain addresses / domains / source ranges. Although most of the time it's some big email provider ignoring a small one.

Re: Threads.net

#75

Post by wilg »

booleandilemma wrote: post #67
wilg wrote: post #7

Imagine how down on Facebook making a Twitter clone everyone would be if it weren't for Mr. E.R. Musk.

At this point it's like the ending of Jurassic Park, when the T-Rex comes and scoops up the velociraptor.

I hope Elon gets his ass whooped enough that he snaps out of being a weirdo.

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#76

Post by gbraad »

Jtsummers wrote: post #47
smoldesu wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are not really the same thing. First off, "they" is a diverse group of people with different opinions on all three of these topics. Secondly, assuming you're talking about RSS, what people wanted from Google wasn't federation but syndication. Google broke the deal and moved to their own solution, acting like they were never a part of RSS in the first place. They later admit they were wrong and added RSS functio…

They probably meant one of Google's chat systems. Google Talk was federated with XMPP, and then they dropped it (a decade ago? longer?).

Yep, at least someone knows

Re: Threads.net

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Post by gbraad »

smoldesu wrote: post #45
gbraad wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which makes no sense. They wanted Google to federate. They still want Apple to open messages (xmpp)... And this? Block it before we see it.

These are not really the same thing. First off, "they" is a diverse group of people with different opinions on all three of these topics. Secondly, assuming you're talking about RSS, what people wanted from Google wasn't federation but syndication. Google broke the deal and moved to their own solution, acting like they were never a part of RSS in the first place. They later admit they were wrong and added RSS functio…

XMPP/Google Talk

They was generally speaking. Nothing about mastodon, Fediverse, pixelfed, or any of the other communities or platforms.

Re: Threads.net

#78

Post by cycomanic »

sphars wrote: post #64
cycomanic wrote: post #60

Not working on Firefox on android. You'd think a company as big as Facebook would get this right.

If you're like me, it's probably due to enhanced tracking protection settings. A lot of Facebook domains get blocked

Thx that explains it. Still not going to turn off tracking protection to look at a countdown timer.

Re: Threads.net

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Post by rsynnott »

throwawaymobule wrote: post #62
ben0x539 wrote: post #16

Someone at Facebook hates concurrent programming and is aiming to do for threads what Stack Overflow did for google searches for info about stack overflows.

I assume you remember when Facebook launched their 'Hack' programming language. This should be less of an issue. unless you're looking for the BBC series about nuclear war.

"Threads" is already extremely overloaded as a term (the computer science concept, the linguistic concept, the apocalyptic BBC show, the clothes....) Search engines cope.

As you say, Hack (and Go...) were both more problematic names.

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