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A good reminder that Mastodon posts are very public
I know, I'm writing a lot about Threads recently, but I think it and it's future federation are just super interesting. Anyway, this post was making the rounds a bit this week, and it basically lists all the bad things Meta has done over the years, which is fair enough. It
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The befuddling “Bluesky is killing it, no one uses Mastodon” narrative
Vice: Threads Is All the Worst Parts of Twitter and Instagram in One Very Bad App
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
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The embarrassment of Elon Musk
Martin Pengelly: Elon Musk Goes Low Against Zuckerberg as Twitter-Threads Spat Intensifies
Twitter owner Elon Musk has suggested he and Mark Zuckerberg should have “a literal dick-measuring contest” in the latest broadside aimed at his rival billionaire.
Elon is making Twitter so insufferable (because he’s insufferable) that 100 million people signed up
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Threads just made my argument for me
Parker Anderson: The Federated App Problem
People are used to the idea of going to one url whether that be YouTube, Twitter, or Reddit to sign up and create content. But now users need to understand federation. There isn’t just one server, but many different servers that can read content from each other. This
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The most depressing tech story that isn’t Elon-related you’ll see today
Ricky: Welcome to the Most Dystopian News Story of the Year
So these headphones that I wish weren’t real, what are they and what do they actually do? Well, according to Farahani, they monitor your brain activity and can tell when you’re focusing on your job, day dreaming, chatting to your colleagues, or
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Musk feels the heat
Max Tani: Twitter Is Threatening to Sue Meta Over Threads
a lawyer for Twitter, Alex Spiro, sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who
Threads is breaking people’s brains
Look, I’m happy that the new big social network is built on ActivityPub which means I’ll be able
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My Thread hot takes (and why Bluesky might be toast)
File this post under "strong beliefs loosely held" because I may be wrong here, but this is what I'm feeling now.
First, Threads is a massive hit. It looks like over 20 million people (update: 30 million) have joined the service already in the first 12 hours since launch. That'
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The worst possible way to argue your case
Stuart A. Thompson: Uncensored Chatbots Provoke a Fracas Over Free Speech
“If you tell it say the N-word 1,000 times it should do it,” one person suggested in Open Assistant’s chat room on Discord, the online chat app. “I’m using that obviously ridiculous and offensive example because I literally believe it
