Eight years ago Lance Ulanoff had a problem. William
Shatner could not find him on Mastodon.
His distress is understandable, relatable even. Who wouldn’t want to
be found by Captain Kirk himself! The
Facebook is trying with Threads. Threads is directly targeting Fedi. Thankfully, it does not seem to be working the way Meta wanted it to work – that is, to start sucking people in from fedi due to sheer size and presumably better UI. Turns out people who had moved to fedi really hate Meta, who’da thunk it.
I don’t mean them trying to compete. I’m referring to a thing they’ve done before. They offer help to an open source project but their help ends up driving the project into the ground.
Yeah. Thankfully, Fediverse is a bunch of independent projects. There are Pleroma, different Misskey forks, Lemmy, kbin, Pixelfed, Loops, GoToSocial, and dozens more.
Mastodon is still probably the biggest, user-count-wise, but if Mastodon does a real stupid, there’s going to be a fork that takes over the mindshare and the instances. This happened with OpenOffice → LibreOffice when the former got taken over by Oracle; this happened with XFree86 → X.org. This happened with ownCloud → Nextcloud.
And there are projects like FediPact, explicitly opposed to having anything to do with Meta on an instance level.
Unless google or facebook starts trying to spaghetti up the codebase then drop it, I don’t expect it to go anywhere
Facebook is trying with Threads. Threads is directly targeting Fedi. Thankfully, it does not seem to be working the way Meta wanted it to work – that is, to start sucking people in from fedi due to sheer size and presumably better UI. Turns out people who had moved to fedi really hate Meta, who’da thunk it.
I don’t mean them trying to compete. I’m referring to a thing they’ve done before. They offer help to an open source project but their help ends up driving the project into the ground.
Yeah. Thankfully, Fediverse is a bunch of independent projects. There are Pleroma, different Misskey forks, Lemmy, kbin, Pixelfed, Loops, GoToSocial, and dozens more.
Mastodon is still probably the biggest, user-count-wise, but if Mastodon does a real stupid, there’s going to be a fork that takes over the mindshare and the instances. This happened with OpenOffice → LibreOffice when the former got taken over by Oracle; this happened with XFree86 → X.org. This happened with ownCloud → Nextcloud.
And there are projects like FediPact, explicitly opposed to having anything to do with Meta on an instance level.
Oh nice, that’s a lot of them. I’ll be exploring a few! Thank you! For easing my mind and for showing me more options
Sure thing, enjoy!