Threads Joins the Fediverse!

[@blobidk]

“We could have our 4chan posts on LinkedIn” had me dying laughing

[@EVILBUNNY28]

“I get nightmare blunt rotation of social media” is the most underrated comment this whole episode 🤣

[@Apple-xt4vp]

Hi Love

[@C1t1z3n1]

So mkbhd doesn't seem to fully understand the fediverse. You don't have to have all your stuff in one app. You can have it all separate but we your followers can choose to have all your content in one place if we choose to.

[@brock985]

fediverse. terrible name and poorly executed concept, if MKBHD doesn’t understand it quickly then the masses will not either

[@C1t1z3n1]

@@brock985 I think he's fully capable of understanding it since it's pretty straightforward. I just don't think he's looked into it.

[@apocalypse487]

​​@@brock985I understood it just fine because I grew up at a time when the Internet was very centralized. If this actually decentralizes it, it will change how we use the Internet. We're gonna see new big names. I think he's trying to work out a business model.

[@catchmepls]

It's nice seeing the wonderful Arc browser logo on your laptop. It's a nice browser if you have not used it before

[@joshix833]

You should try to join the fediverse and learn how it works. It's great Your instance tracks your followers, content and stuff. If you post it gets federated to all your followers and they can reply, like and boost. All these interactions will be federated back to you. So everything works like it should. Users can choose what they want to see by following. You can have multiple accounts per thing you want to do or you can do everything (posting/viewing) with the same account. It depends on your preference. I think most people use a social media platform because of the people that are there. So please join and people will follow you!

[@hiphopheaven]

Was great untill you realize that instance admins are abusing defederation and you have to create mulriple account to bypass this

[@joshix833]

@@hiphopheaven if a centralized social media gets bought by a shitty dude everyone is fucked. On the fediverse you can switch to another instance that doesn't block those who you want to interact with.

[@hiphopheaven]

@@joshix833 Can you name a single instance that isn't blocking anybody? This is just another form of censorship that we critisize centralized social media. With mastodon and other decentralized open source app there is still a team that accept or refuse changes or implements bad features

[@nguyenhanh9479]

english ?

[@hander__s]

and not gonna lie i think that's what Meta is trying to do@@joshix833

[@JackSpasojevich]

nightmare blunt rotation of social medias thats hilarious

[@camerron_abella]

“we could have our 4chan posts on linkedin" is the funniest thing i've heard all week

[@HonoredMule]

"It's like...if hockey was only on Samsung TVs do I want to be able to get the choice of watching it on an LG TV instead." _Ooof_ What a thorough indictment of the absolute shitshow we've let the internet become.

[@maxresdefault_]

"I'm the dad here, take my New Balance shoes" was the perfect response

[@mta1864]

History repeats (maybe)! The hockey/TV analogy is particularly insightful. The Fediverse if it ever fully matures, will turn posts into "programming" and apps into "cable TV stations". Instead of Facebook and Twitter, you'll have the Cooking App and the Sports App to collate all the content. Will it make things "better"? I dunno. But it'll make things different so that might be fun.

[@michaelchen2718]

2:02 me thinking Marques is building this deep metaphor-- oh cringe

[@apeksblue]

the email protocol came at the right time for it to succeed, whereas this fediverse thing seems like it's two decades too late for what it's trying to accomplish.

[@KOSAMAGAMES]

Email wanted to succeed while AcitivityPub is trying to empower. You can tell people seek private server and public with the rise of discord. But as Discord grows it's cost is blowing up, they permanently host content indefinitely, one day the bill will be due. You can't escape, export, and move over so easily. In the Fediverse your content is yours, if you make your own server could cost like $5 a month and just have your friends on it. Personally when I joined I did it to have a place for my friends and share stuff, I got tired having to move my stuff or lose my stuff like when Myspace died and broke. Now if I wanted to I can export my stuff and run a Mastodon off the Internet locally at my house if I wanted. I think others realized this and it's success is just an extra.

[@HonoredMule]

Open, decentralized platforms, open source tech, open standards, etc. are always super late to market and only succeed after proprietary systems teach a whole new generation of tech enthusiasts just how much they cost in the long run. They start late from way behind and often have a technically harder objective to implement (at least if you discount the lock-in and monetization schemes of private platforms). But big tech will always _always_ eventually burn _every shred_ of good will and even tolerance the market affords. Doing less would be leaving money on the table, and that's not how (especially publicly traded) businesses operate. Then, those projects that just want to provide a public good are around reminding us that community and cooperation are actually pretty cool. It's such a slow burn because the primary pipeline to building those projects and communities _starts_ with people who've already been burned too hard to return _even in the face of no real alternative,_ learning from either the current round of big tech abuse or a previous one. The fediverse is right on time. I might even be willing to try out something like facebook or twitter for the first time soon. 😉

[@sshivam6955]

​@@HonoredMuleunity moment

[@ErikUden]

Well, it's never too late to course correct. With the new EU legislation (DMA/DSA) it's right on time!

[@adenansu]

I have multiple fediverse accounts on various platforms, most of which I've forgotten about. Very easy to make completely different personalities.

[@mapachw]

I am both excited and scared for the future of ActivityPub (I'm a fediverse user). Don't want to see another EEE move on open projects.

[@DavidDarnes]

Really good hypothetical from Ellis, sure glad that’s not real 😳

[@PikminGuts92]

So the Fediverse will create more competition? Somehow I don't think tech giants will be in much hurry to adopt it.

[@nvincenth]

Looking forward to this

[@michaelchen2718]

Question: who makes money from decentralization? the "maintainers" of the infrastructure?

[@Cloudymindxii]

Yes, the admins of the server

[@michaelchen2718]

1:32 I think it's a pretty simple concept lol

[@michaelchen2718]

3:22 LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[@iMoha46]

do people actually use these new apps

[@Ryan-093]

yes.

[@memediatek]

I have for 5 years, as do most of my friends. Not having billionaires control what I can post and pushing hateful content towards me (twitter with transphobia now), is incredibly useful

[@Mischelle395]

since Elon Musk took over Twitter, yes, and I even host my own instance on my server

[@ScottMStolz]

Millions of people already have accounts in the fediverse.

[@lionheartglass]

BlueSky is actually fun

[@ScottMStolz]

If you have different personas or different audiences, you would create different channels. Most creators create channels based on the content they create, rather than have one channel for everything.

[@michaelchen2718]

7:24 ok NOW I'm kinda undestanding the potential

[@theskeletalrebel3908]

You can always have multiple accounts if you don’t want everything mixed.

[@xaionik]

They should really research before talking about this stuff.

[@dontatmebro-]

Well that’s concerning.

[@harshps1001]

F (get well soon adam)

[@0newheeldrives]

So basically the RSS feed is back

[@ScottMStolz]

That is a good analogy, except now you can like, reply, and share in addition to reading.

[@michaelchen2718]

2:05 LOL

[@kiddadd]

Why is it called fediverse?

[@Overcrook65]

Because it is run by the feds, obviously...

[@24BlackMamba8]

WTF is mastedon?

[@ScottMStolz]

A Twitter clone that can talk to other social media platforms, not just itself.

[@burnzy3210]

These people want to come back to twitter so bad but they can't admit it.

[@michaelchen2718]

12:20 nobody on earth has 800M

[@djrt8179]

My problem with this connected audience thing is I use different platforms for different things. I watch MKBHD on KZbin, I think I follow you on Twitter too. I don't want you on Instagram. That's not why I use instagram. Same for myself. My instagram personality is NOT my Twitter personality and that's not my Reddit personality. It's probably a great idea for creators, but I'm 100% certain most consumers would hate it. Unless it was voluntary and you could keep everything separate, then I definitely wouldn't want to be a part of it. Also not sure why any social site would want to be a part of this. They're already losing money, now you want to decentivize people using your app because they don't need to open your app, they get everything they want from one app? What's the benefit? And now Instagram has to deal with the bandwith from every tweet from 8 different micro blogging sites? What's the point of that...

[@TangySalmon]

Are we just reinventing RSS?

[@growingup15]

Thats what I was thinking XD

[@ScottMStolz]

It is just like RSS for the reading part. This just adds likes, replies/comments, and shares. So basically it's RSS that you can interact with.

[@makatron]

Quit using threads when got banned from leaving comments on Instagram and wouldn't let me post anything on threads.

[@bstange]

Thank you for calling Twitter what it is - Twitter and not some single letter.

[@Anand2024]

1:32 This is not a good idea

[@JackSpasojevich]

F for adam

[@lustbubo4638]

1:50 i almost unsubscribed because of this joke

[@apeksblue]

I like how decentralized something like email is like how a user with an @iCloud email domain can communicate with an @gmail user without problem - but if I were to subscribe to MKBHD's "email" and he posts all of his yt, twitter, insta, and TikTok into this "email inbox" sorta deal then I would hate that. I'd much rather just go to each platform for all that content and see it where it's supposed to be.

[@Hiluxtaco]

They are all wearing Ugly Christmas Sweaters...

[@HoNow222]

i wish!

[@GoingMenthol]

Embrace, extend, extinguish

[@skyscraperfan]

It annoys the hell out of me, if I follow people on three platforms and they copy their content from one platform to all the others.

[@tikinn]

What if 2 different people have the same handles, just on different platforms? For example @mkbhd on Threads and @mkbhd on Mastodon, but they are 2 completely different people? It could introduce a lot of confusion.

[@memediatek]

Think like email addresses. I can be amy@oneSite, you could be amy@anotherSite. The domains are used to differentiate usernames

[@sigmaroll9802]

All that wasted expensive equipment

[@TheNetflixNook]

i cant tell if this is helpful and makes following and finding information easier or if this is just another way to get people locked into a platform.

[@scortius9875]

You do realize that such a system would allow for all the disinfo, misinfo, hateful posts and all the other darkside stuff to be cross-posted to every other app ... not really a good idea unless a lot of rules and guard rails are put in place ......

[@mapachw]

ActivityPub is not the same as cross-posting everywhere. At least as of now, to get people from different platforms in your feed you need to follow them. But yes, moderation would need to scale up real fast. And we would have to trust Meta to actually do something about the bigots in their app to prevent malicious interactions cross-platform.

[@ScottMStolz]

It's no different than different websites having different content. Bad sites and users can be blocked by moderators or users, and you avoid a lot of crap by simply not following people who post crap. Basically, don't subscribe to content you don't want to see. And if something does slip through, you can block them or ask the admin to block them.

[@CeruleanDerpo]

No because if there is a social network (let's call it an instance) in the fediverse where this stuff is allowed or that is poorly moderated, other instances can defederate from it, essentially blocking their posts and interactions out

[@danielbeaucunningham]

I can’t wait to not see all those federated posts on platforms I don’t care about 😂 but jokes aside it’s a good concept

[@Mirtual]

The average person could not care less about this 😂

[@MrDJRadeEEYo]

F

[@80-80.]

I love that nobody is talking about Musk’s platform anymore.

[@80-80.]

@@eccentricfusionX That’s right wing/Russian disinformation. It’s not true just because it’s repeated a million times. Twitter had more users in 2020 than now. Not to mention all the advertisers that have left.

[@freedom_post]

Twitter is killing it (despite media reports) regarding traffic and user interaction metrics. Meta is trying to leverage the networks that they have, adding some other left leaning networks to it. This is aimed to be an ecosystem sell to be better leveraged against Twitter/X.

[@namuzed]

Yeah, I get that there are people who passionately hate Elon, but usage is up and I'm actually enjoying the pure chaos. It's almost as good as the internet of 15 years ago.

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

​@@namuzedThe internet of 15 years ago was unmoderated, whereas eX is moderated in a demonstrably alt-right/straight up pro Musk biased manner

[@alexanderg1935]

This sounds like a cope because you like the politics. Twitter/X's value is down by around two thirds and most analysts have doubts about the platform's sustainability.

[@menachempike4489]

what are you saying the algorithm is sports, tech and right wing politics thats literally it

[@lbgstzockt8493]

Perfect for the kind of person who thinks elon is some kind of genius. They don't care or understand more complicated things.@@menachempike4489

[@ksgraphicsghana]

First comment 🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@youngpros14]

People still use threads these days?

[@Ryan-093]

yes.

[@hiphopheaven]

Only people who seeking drama and post edgy content that threads is promoting by it's algorithm

[@unwonted1689]

HAH, im the first viewer!!

[@kristinchong629]

Saint internet. 🎉🎉🎉 We need the sweater.

[@manuelight]

threads is dead on arrival

[@AbhishekYadav-ks1oz]

This is disgusting.

[@tj5463]

Threads sucks

[@Rashle]

Doing all this just to censor people lol 😂.

[@tperki2322]

Those are some ugly sweaters.

[@michaelchen2718]

F