Ha, I applied to two smaller instances and have heard nothing but radio silence. The smaller instances are of no help if they don’t let anyone in.

The entire fediverse is built upon the idea of an open protocol that anyone is welcome in yet it seems like everyone is shocked that a corporation is finally jumping in.

This was inevitable and more will be coming. The beauty of the fediverse is that you can still find an instance that gets all the mainstream content of the Meta stuff while not subjecting you to the algorithm and data gathering that Meta apps have. In addition, if you DON'T want to participate and see that stuff, the fediverse provides ways to de-federate your neck of the woods and live in bliss without seeing and interacting with any Meta content.

sir this is a wal-mart

Wild how it’s never a drag queen.

tbh I had totally forgotten about the Victoria situation. In retrospect, maybe I am dumber than I realized for being surprised at some of the recent Reddit decisions.

I started on kbin for my first 2 weeks of the fediverse but I've since migrated mostly to lemmy and I think I'm happier here tbh.

Excited to see where kbin goes, and really excited to see all of the apps being made for both technologies.

I think it’s a downside that I’ve heard they’re not federating immediately, but rather doing that in a few months.

Instagram Threads WILL entice a bunch of people to leave Twitter (and eventually get to the fediverse), but if Insta Threads aren’t federated on day 1, we can’t offer up alternatives to users that doesn’t harvest data.

Instead, they’ll only get that choice in a few months, though still better than never I guess 🤷‍♂️

The creator has an official app pending in the iOS App Store right now.

In addition, they’re releasing a “log in with Mastsdon” feature within like the next 24 hours.

Creator here: https://mastodon.social/@dansup

Honestly its their fight to lose. Or maybe win, in their eyes. They'll be the smaller, left out community in a few weeks as more and more people migrate in with new apps and instances. Maybe that's what they want.

Only if people voluntarily give up their privacy and switch to a threads account/app, right? I mean ultimately the argument is that Meta will develop features so cool that we’ll all give up our privacy for them?

Idk, it just seems like if that’s the fear, I think it will happen regardless and even defederating won’t really stop that. I feel like people will just make new accounts wherever the cool place to be is.

I’m all for defederating just because you don’t want to see or associate with that content though, that totally make sense.

How are you trying to upvote? Tap to upvote isn't in (yet), you have to swipe on comments to vote/comment on them.

But why do they want to consume the fediverse?

The fedidb.org site says the fediverse has ~10m MAUs (a lot of which are probably already on Meta)

Threads got like 10m users on day 1.

It would be such a small increase in users/content for them to consume and most of the people here block ads anyway, so I feel like we’re their worst demographic.

Most servers already seem to have Patreons or similar donation platforms running, and subscriptions would not surprise me as everyone starts to settle into this thing. It would make a lot of sense to help spread the load and since content wouldn’t be gated behind the subscription, I can’t see why it would be bad.

I think I have similar thoughts on ads. If an instance wants to run ads to support itself, I don’t see an issue as long as those ads aren’t “federated” out and sent to other places.

I think the ability to have all of these different setups, without restricting any access to content, is the beauty of the fediverse. At least as I understand it.

Damn, they ADDED buttons instead of making the existing top left comment arrows clickable? That… sucks 😕

I think a lot of people feel similarly, we’re just exhausted from all the pearl clutching in the fediverse.

I think it’s cool they’re federating. I’m excited to see some of that mainstream content without giving up so much of my personal info/data.

I’m also excited that there will be defederated places to go to if I don’t want to see/interact with the Meta crowd.

Yeah I was pretty solidly in the kbin camp until I finally lost Apollo. Wefwef really scratches that itch though.

i love it

Don't worry, it's tripped me and a lot of other folks up too. Although Apollo supported swiping, I always tapped.

In addition to deleting history, could you get direct access to the account and watch better/different content to hopefully get that stuff more recommended too?

Oh wow you're totally right. I was just able to log into one that I had never heard from! Thank you, good call!