Email and Usenet used to have the same barrier to entry, you needed someone to host and provide NNTP, POP3 and SMTP servers for you to access them. This was usually your ISP or IT department.
Modern internet users have become so conditioned by FB, Gmail, etc to think that the only way you can access content is though one of these monolithic providers. There are some users who think that FaceBook is the internet (just like Early AOL, MSN and CompuServe users of the 90’s).
I would like to see small ISPs provide federated instances for their subscribers, just like their email servers and the NNTP servers from days of yore. Since most independent ISP churn is triggered by word-of-mouth, it would be a great marketing platform.
Great post on the mastodon blog, clearing things up;
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
In a nutshell, Zuck may want to EEE, but ActivityPub already has enough of a user graph and is structured in such a way that it would not be possible.
100%, and their advertisers don’t either, however do their users have a place in the Fediverse?
We used to say the same thing about GNU/Linux on the desktop, and we were/are ridiculed constantly. The fact is that it is. While Android isn’t the same as Linux, it (and every other consumer platform besides MacOS, iOS and Windows) is based on Linux.
When Instagram Threads is released in a day-and-a-half, (and if it lives upto it’s potential and isn’t just a case of Embrace-Extend-Extinguish), ActivityPub and the Fediverse will be mainstream.
“Why do you have a RAM/Silverado/F250?”
In case I need to tow a 4500 tonne caravan
“Do you have a 4500 tonne caravan?”
*no, I can’t afford one because i spent too much on my RAM/Silverado/F250”
This a huge benefit of federated content. I have never been force-fed content from an AlGoRiThYm that was remotely relevant to my interests.
That said, if someone does successfully develop a bot that does take into consideration my eclectic tastes, it can be easily implemented due to the open nature of ActivityPub. It is unlikely be corrupted by commercial interests to manipulate me, and if it does, I have the ability to ignore it.
Apollo had a huge loyal customer base.
Wefwef provides an almost perfectly cloned UI and is a mere WebApp.
For this reason a lot of users are so impressed with it that they are evangelising it.
The big problem with it that it requires users to submit their login credentials, which is a bit of a security issue.
My completely unfounded and speculative pet theory is that when casual punters tried to read Reddit using their favourite 3rd Party app, and couldn’t, they went to use Twitter instead.
Since Twitter has been haemorrhaging regular users all year, and trying to cut costs, their diminished infrastructure couldn’t handle it, causing Elon to panic and release his policy change.
Lemmy us only superficially similar to Reddit. In fact it is much more, or so much less, depending on what you need in your social networking.
That level of control makes it more complicated for some people.
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