I'm super excited about the #Fediverse. I've been online since the 90s, been through most evolution stages of the internet, and it feels like we're changing it once again - and this time in a good way.
Quoting this post anonymously because I don’t want to be the one to burst their newly reformed bubble. However I believe the honeymoon’s almost over with Threads entering the space, regardless of their intentions. They’re just too massive of a player not to shift the power dynamics in their favor.
People have long been angry at Gargron for sucking most of the Fediverse attention towards Mastodon through no particular fault of their own, and I believe it’s about to change, and not necessarily for the better.
For fringe projects like #Friendica, it won’t change much though, we never were prominent in the space and Threads’ arrival will not change that. @Michael Vogel ’s willing, we’ll start supporting the new API quirks Threads will inevitably put forth and leave the decision to interact with Threads or not to Friendica administrators and individual users.
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • • •"People have long been angry at Gargron for sucking most of the Fediverse attention towards Mastodon through no particular fault of their own, and I believe it’s about to change, and not necessarily for the better."
And wait:
"...we are seeing that the system is not federating correctly due to certificate errors on Threads side. We understand that they are working to resolve those certification issues with assistance from the Mastodon core team"
"...they are working to resolve those certification issues with assistance from the Mastodon core team"
"...with assistance from the Mastodon core team"
Here: https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2023/12/23/threads-update/
I don't know about you, but I don't like the sound of that, one bit
Sounds like Gargron is fully on-board with Threads
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Threads Update
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in reply to anubis2814 • • •@anubis2814 the global feed is already filled by Mastodon posts fwiw (at least on my end). When Reddit had the crisis in summer, Lemmy threads came to fill the space. I would certainly not be surprised to see Threads taking the place of both when their federation will go live.
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in reply to anubis2814 • • •@anubis2814 yea, that's right. And it will be a hard push for us to get people over. The only thing that could help in all this EEE Damocles's Sword thing would be actually Mastodon, I think...
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • • •Actually Gargamel has been hostile to trust & safety changes submitted by the queer community for over 5 years now, railroaded full text indexing, and is clearly attempting to carve out a Fediverse fiefdom during the gold rush days. The sooner folks escape Rochko’s Basilisk the better. Eugen is every bit the problematic techbro he appears to be. It’s easy to spot his embrace of “Dictator for Life” from the #BDFL badmeme. Also notable how Garg downplays any responsibility for Benevolence in that blessed arrangement.
Thankfully Fedi is more than Mastodon. We do need more hostile forks of the Mastodon project, though. And probably a reference implementation that G doesn’t control.
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