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I would rather not have Zuckerberg controlling more social platforms, but at the same time I really want Musk to crash and burn.
Why not both?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Zuckerberg’s company is already courting celebrities and influencers to test the app.
Even if it was someone other than Zuckerberg doing this, reading this bit would immediately turn me off to the platform.
I guess I'm old enough to have gone through they heyday of the internet at an impressionable time in my life, but I have zero time for influencers or opinions by celebrities on literally anything.
Rich business dudes threatening other rich business dudes with... business.
There's not much "technology" in there.
Technology forums used to be a place to chat about cool new technology, now it's just people complaining about what FAANG did today
Anyone who uses that platform is an absolute fucking zucker.
Meta's incursion in the fediverse might cause very bad effects, there's nothing preventing them from spitting ads from their new platform to all other platforms compatible with it.
I really hope that if we come to that, admins will defederate immediately.
Nah admins/owners of instances are gonna get paid to stay
This is what I fear the most tbh
The fact that instagram users can migrate their accounts to Threads (presumably with very little configuration) is huge. I don't feel like it would impact this side of the internet as much but twitter could look like a very different place a year from now. Doubt they'll be trying to federate.
Advertisers are likely to be much more willing to bank their ad dollars with Zuckerberg than smaller rivals.
I'm fine with any most thing that shows you cannot enable harm-to-discourse as much as Musk has. I would sooner them come to Zuckerberg than crawling back to Twitter because it didn't have an alternative. Twitter is very much a walking corpse right now, but something else coming along to snatch the could-be advertisers secure that it can stay in its fucking pit. (unless various sus governments still somehow see use in keeping it propped up)
zuck my tongue is kinda funny though
They're going to quickly realize they're already reaching that audience via Facebook; the people using this service will be the same people.
They might keep those users more engaged with this new app though. The Twitter format might be more successful for facilitating outrage and arguments than the Facebook format is.
And more engagement means more adverts shown and thus more revenue.