Facebook has tried to compete with Twitter in numerous ways over the years, including copying signature Twitter features such as hashtags and trending topics. But now Facebook’s parent company is taking perhaps its biggest swipe at Twitter yet.

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    2 years ago

    It’s ironic how the Fediverse on the one hand celebrates the fact that anyone can join and instances can all do their own things and hold their own views

    Yes, all in contrast to corporate enshittification and algorithmic spyware.

    and then it goes “but not like that” in this case.

    Yes, because its corporate social media waiting for enshittification with algorithmic spyware.

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      42 years ago

      If some instance wants to enshittify itself it’s free to do so. The Fediverse makes it straightforward for its users to move to other instances when that happens.

      If Reddit had been magically federated with the rest of the threadiverse, for example, it would have made reacting to their recent API decisions much easier.

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        12 years ago

        I dont really see your point. Sure, instances can do that. But instances and its users can also not do that, and right now its just instance users arguing that we shouldnt do that.

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          42 years ago

          Thankfully, “we” are not a monolith. People who don’t mind some level of interaction with Meta can do that, those who want zero contact with it can do that, and all is well.