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The logo looks like the letters C and a. I wonder whether this is intentional.
The logo is an @ with a very strange choice of typeface. Probably a nod to the @username format that Twitter made so popular.
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Meta does not have the support of legislators. The EU would regulate any service that would even aspire to become a Western WeChat way before they have any chance to succeed.
Doesnt EU already have somewhat of a WeChat, everybody uses whatsapp there. Definitely Meta already won that market.
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One reason I haven't started Mastodon is that I don't want my experience to be ruled by self-righteous egotistical reddit mods. It's better for users when the admins are professional and checked out.
If only you were so lucky, Mastodon admins are way worse. Not only might they mod at will in the way reddit mods do, Mastodon admins take it several steps further by bothering other instance mods about their moderation. And then yet another step: whom they federate with. They'll form little secret discord channels where they gather and form cancellation pacts on entire instances, based on a whim.
Anyone interested in talking about the product decisions instead of Musk/Zuck hate? - Interesting that they went with a stand-alone app instead of baking this into IG like they did with Stories (which killed Snap overnight). I wonder how much they’ll advertise the download inside of IG. - Can’t say I like the name. Doesn’t evoke much emotion in me. The term “thread” is rarely used by normies without the word “Twitter…
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It won't last -- if it even launches with this feature -- pretty sure. As others have pointed out, most hosts will simply de-federate them pretty quickly anyways, and then it will become a useless feature that they turn off. I suspect it will be one-way anyways, to capitalize on the existing content produced by Mastodon users out there already while they bootstrap. There's no way they'd offer their own content up int…
The most realistic comment in the thread, you don't deserve these downvotes. Threads development started last January. Quite obviously it's a rush job to capitalize on the fall of Twitter before BlueSky does. They'll instantly fill it with a zillion Insta users to get a critical mass going and take things from there. Surely they don't give a crap about any fediverse.
Also that it they will only peer with hosts that sign an agreement with them. There is rumour of $$ involved.
I think you can guess how this will all shake out.
(Snarky aside: maybe Truth Social will federate with them?)
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Marketplace dominates used goods in my area. I don't think it matters that it's not "standalone," it was a new area and they grabbed the market share. Running threads off IG has a good shot too.
Here in Germany, it's a non factor. Most people below 25 or 30 don't even have facebook any more.
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People on the Fediverse expected it very much. Meta already was trying to talk to the larger instances "off the record"[1]. Fediverse users are already planning to boycott any instance which federates with Meta to block any Embrace, Extend and Extinguish moves. [1] https://fosstodon.org/@kev/110592625692688836 edit: More info here: https://wedistribute.org/2023/06/fedipact-blocking-meta/
Why? I would love for the general public to be able to connect to Fediverse. I don't love Meta per se, but let be real here, the majority of people are not gonna sign up for random instances that run by someone they don' know, to interact with a very small and niche subset of people, with a risk of it being shut down by that said person due to whatever personal circumstances they may have. It's the biggest obstacles…
Anyone interested in talking about the product decisions instead of Musk/Zuck hate? - Interesting that they went with a stand-alone app instead of baking this into IG like they did with Stories (which killed Snap overnight). I wonder how much they’ll advertise the download inside of IG. - Can’t say I like the name. Doesn’t evoke much emotion in me. The term “thread” is rarely used by normies without the word “Twitter…