The Facebook company’s new social platform is like Twitter, but for celebrities, brands, and annoying people.
  • sub_o@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    But Mastodon is built on a technology stack almost as old as Twitter’s, and has largely failed to achieve widespread adoption despite several mass-exoduses from Twitter. BlueSky is more promising, using a brand new protocol called AT which promises to let users not only create their own instances of the service, but filter their feeds with custom algorithms, instead of settling for one centrally-controlled “master algorithm” that prioritizes engagement above all else.

    Am I fucking crazy, or do people just pluck information out of thin air, without any fact checking and call themselves senior journalists? Does she hold any investment in Bluesky?

    • keltaris@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Does she hold any investment in BlueSky?

      Imo, it’s way more likely she got her information about BS from the website/a press release/a contact at BS and like you said, didn’t bother to get a contrasting opinion from anyone associated with Mastodon (probably because it’s a lot harder to get ahold of someone from a distributed project like Mastodon).

      • Meshuggah333@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        So she got BS from BS, what a surprise… This kind of “journalism” drives me nuts, more and more medias owned by idiots with too much money promotes these kind of crap with zero nuance and fact checking :/

        • keltaris@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          So she got BS from BS

          To be fair, my guess about the source of those claims is also totally unsubstantiated and quite possibly bullshit 😉

  • bear_delune@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Tech “journalists” have no idea how to speak about Mastodon or the fediverse.

    They seem to think that unless something has billions of users, it’s dead. They can’t even comprehend how people could prefer a smaller more selective userbase

    • Kleinbonum@feddit.deEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Many “tech journalists” are about as old as Facebook.

      When they started using devices, the iPhone had been around for years, and the only discussion platforms they ever knew where centralized platforms with millions and millions of users run by mega corporations. In their personal life experience, Reddit has always just existed, they’ve never known a world without YouTube, Snapchat is what they used when they were little kids, TikTok had been around long enough that’s it’s considered an established media outlet.

      They’ve never seen a Usenet group, they’ve never had accounts on phpbb forums. Choosing a smaller platform with a more selective userbase just doesn’t exist in their reality.

    • Feanor@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yeah tech journalist don’t seem to have any critical thinking skills. They praise any technology coming from a big tech company. I have only seen one wired article mentioning the fedivere

      • bear_delune@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        They’ve just tied their careers to the profits of tech and have lost all passion they have for the nerdy hobby of their youth

  • Feanor@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    And another article dismissing the fediverse. This people search for a new master that can hold their data hostage

  • bermuda@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Threads has all your favorite social media users, such as corporate brand accounts, annoying Instagram influencers, and minor internet celebrities who aren’t funny.

    What bubble does the author live in where this is considered standout journalism? Like, congratulations on discovering the internet. What rock have they been living in since 1995?

  • themisir@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Not really. Privacy wise it’s terrible, but user experience is pretty alright I’d say for a microblogging platform. In fact I feel like it’s going to threaten the fediverse by being open at first and then slowly closing up and locking people in, creating an image where all the other nodes should be part of meta’s fediverse and follow certain rules, etc.

  • caoimhin@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The article reads as if it could have been written a month ago. My Threads timeline (albeit currently algorithmic) has settled into just accounts (news, tech, sports) I follow. Twitter is toast.

  • echo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    this article doesn’t really make it sound any different than twitter other than not allowing porn