NGL, this is a power move. Governments around Europe are looking HARD at their presence on Twitter. They might actually jump ship. This is why we have to continue pushing Mastodon.
If I understand you correctly, you’re saying that governments might leave Twitter for threads and we should push so they use mastodon instead? Assuming that is what you mean, I don’t think that makes any sense.
For one, I don’t think government accounts are a main driver for social media users. No one ever said “I only use this service if the UK government has an account there”. Governments go where the accounts are.
For another, you can push all you want, if it’s not something that people want to use it’s not going to work. Our best hope is for threads to actually implement activity pub and then being able to use other apps and servers, while still being connected to the “rest of the world”.
The counter argument to this is that the government’s public communication should be accessible to everyone. Government messages should be visible to the public without them having to register and log in. That is becoming increasingly more difficult in corporate social media, especially Meta’s - Instagram and FB are good indicators.
The advantage of the fediverse isn’t just that you can view public messages without registering. If you need to subscribe to something, you can do so from any fediverse platform - no need for another new account. This leaves it open for the government to choose or even host their own fediverse platform - something many governments are already doing.
Oh I’m not arguing with you there, I think activity pub should absolutely be used by governments one way or another. If for nothing else than hosting their own content.
Oh! I was not arguing either. I meant ‘counter argument’ as in justification. Points to argue a case for governments to choose the fediverse. Fediverse has no one other than its devs and users to argue for it.
Yes, let’s switch from the dumpster fire that is twitter, to the competitor that didn’t launch in the EU, because it has horrible privacy practices.
The internet in 2023
The internet in 2023 also brought us Mastodon, Lemmy and the rest of the fediverse (yes, they were there before. But the corporate social media finally managed to piss off enough users) and resurgence of IRC, Usenet, XMPP, etc, while services like matrix are going strong.
Yes - those are more exclusive and smaller in size. But they are viable (except perhaps the really old protocols). And we finally have something to look forward to. 2023 wasn’t all that bad.
Is Threads still a thing ??
I don’t want to be mean (also I’m not using threads and am using mastodon and Lemmy), but threads is multiple times more a thing than Lemmy or mastodon.
Mastodon, for example, has around 1.8 million monthly active users right now, where threads has around 100 million monthly active users. That’s a factor of over 50x.
Lemmy, in comparison, has 35k active users which is roughly a factor of 3000. So yeah, threads is still a thing.
Very anecdotal but I’ve asked my normie friends about Threads and they think it was hardly ever a thing. It may be 100 million active users but that’s still a small percentage of the population it’s available to, and given it’s for profit that might not even be enough to sustain it. With Mastodon and Lemmy it’s quality over quantity, I’m happy to be smaller, just hope we can keep Threads out if they last long enough to get around to federating.
Fuck off, Meta!
NO, GOD, PLEASE, NO, NO, NO, NOOOOOOOOOO
Just in time for nobody to care.
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if it’s mandatory to make an instagram account still, there’s literally no point to use it over instagram
This makes no sense whatsoever. I’m not saying anyone should use either, but they’re not the same and just because you need the other account to sign up doesn’t mean it’s the same thing.
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