The big accounts will tell you it's the people on #Mastodon they don't like. But remember, they kept drinking from Twitter's feed long after the milk turned.

Professional posters need a game to beat; a system to rig. They need a marketplace of ideals to sell soundbites and merch.

#Mastodon is closer to a community than a market. You can't sell anything without a market.

#Bluesky #Threads

It's not the sign-up process that's preventing a mass-migration to #Mastodon. Reduce barriers to entry, sure. But it was not so long that we had to load a CD, type in credentials, and listen to the Internet demons summon our connection.

No, it's that Mastodon isn't suitable for Internet fame. The big accounts will ever come to a place that doesn't support an algorithmic caste system. How'd they know who's more important? If the big accounts won't come neither will anyone else

#Bluesky #Threads

The big accounts will tell you it's the people on #Mastodon they don't like. But remember, they kept drinking from Twitter's feed long after the milk turned.

Professional posters need a game to beat; a system to rig. They need a marketplace of ideals to sell soundbites and merch.

#Mastodon is closer to a community than a market. You can't sell anything without a market.

#Bluesky #Threads

It's not the sign-up process that's preventing a mass-migration to #Mastodon. Reduce barriers to entry, sure. But it was not so long that we had to load a CD, type in credentials, and listen to the Internet demons summon our connection.

No, it's that Mastodon isn't suitable for Internet fame. The big accounts will ever come to a place that doesn't support an algorithmic caste system. How'd they know who's more important? If the big accounts won't come neither will anyone else

#Bluesky #Threads

Threads now includes their long form text attachments to fediverse enabled posts. Gonna go login for the first time in a few weeks and try it out.

#Fediverse #Threads
https://www.threads.com/@shubhankar_91/post/DPWtTFwjp-M

All servers listed by Fedi.Garden have defederated Meta's #Threads.

You might think "Why not let users choose what they see? Users can block stuff they don't like."

The trouble is, you can't block real life effects of hateful lies spread online. Disinformation about vulnerable groups causes discrimination, threats, violence, and mass murder:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans

Meta is getting worse:

https://apnews.com/article/meta-facebook-hate-speech-trump-immigrant-transgender-41191638cd7c720b950c05f9395a2b49

#Meta (including Threads) needs to be defederated.

In my sisters sci comm lecture today, a slide displayed three alternatives to X.

Bluesky

Threads

Mastodon

We need to be better at supporting these young academics who are being pointed this way.

#SocialWeb #Mastodon #LeaveX #SocialMedia #SciComm #Bluesky #Threads #Twitter

All servers listed by Fedi.Garden have defederated Meta's #Threads.

You might think "Why not let users choose what they see? Users can block stuff they don't like."

The trouble is, you can't block real life effects of hateful lies spread online. Disinformation about vulnerable groups causes discrimination, threats, violence, and mass murder:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans

Meta is getting worse:

https://apnews.com/article/meta-facebook-hate-speech-trump-immigrant-transgender-41191638cd7c720b950c05f9395a2b49

#Meta (including Threads) needs to be defederated.

if you ask me the point of undertaking the small acts of resistance i find within my reach, i must admit:

“probably nothing, but possibly everything.”

and those are the best odds i can expect to play if i am in the habit of believing in troubling things like freedom. i might never know the results of what we do, but i have trouble thinking they could be worse than if we had done nothing at all.

#FediPact #meta #threads

In my sisters sci comm lecture today, a slide displayed three alternatives to X.

Bluesky

Threads

Mastodon

We need to be better at supporting these young academics who are being pointed this way.

#SocialWeb #Mastodon #LeaveX #SocialMedia #SciComm #Bluesky #Threads #Twitter

if you ask me the point of undertaking the small acts of resistance i find within my reach, i must admit:

“probably nothing, but possibly everything.”

and those are the best odds i can expect to play if i am in the habit of believing in troubling things like freedom. i might never know the results of what we do, but i have trouble thinking they could be worse than if we had done nothing at all.

#FediPact #meta #threads

IDK how complicated migrating the domain from https://www.threads.net to https://www.threads.com would be, but not advertising it to users or making any provision for this is dire. #fediverse #threads #meta

So apparently part of the issue with #threads is that they moved domain from https://www.threads.net to https://www.threads.com with the result that #fediverse domain handles are no longer obvious and transparent. Kind of screams neglect and don’t care won’t fix.

There's a certain kind around here who insists on referring to Zuckerberg's Threads as a "fediverse instance". OK, that "fediverse instance" is nonconsensually using the photos of real children in their schoolgirl uniforms to market itself to adult men. Do you think that "fediverse instance" should be defederated?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man

#DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram

#zuckerberg #threads #fckthreads

https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/meta-nutzte-offenbar-bilder-von-maedchen-in-schuluniform-um-fuer-threads-zu-werben-a-f76ebfff-4544-4e74-86f1-9abac29618b7

@mat Interesting if it is mere coincidence, but I cannot get #Threads accounts to follow @Flipboard accounts at all #interoperability #activitypub

This comic 👆 by @span jensorensen sums it up perfectly when it comes to decisions for or against certain social media networks. Let's do better!

Our #SocialMediaMatrix helps communications managers weigh up the options:
https://social-media-matrix.king-consult.de/index-en.html

#SocialMedia#responsibility#Fediverse#Instagram#Meta#X#Twitter#Threads#Facebook#TikTok#WissKomm #Bundestag#DigitalSovereignty#Demokratie #TagderDemokratie #DemocracyDay#SciComm#Science#Communication