• maegul (he/they)English
    42•1 year ago

    Not surprising. What’s funny about this is the weirdness of fracturing the simple idea of a microblogging service.

    Like right now there are people with four apps on their phone: mastodon, bluesky, threads and twitter. They may even use most of those pretty regularly … to what!!! post 200 character statements about trivial stuff?

    Really does make the case for a federated protocol of some sort. Choosing your app, culture, community and moderation standards really can’t be tightly coupled to the platform anymore.

    • BraveSirZaphod
      3•1 year ago

      Really does make the case for a federated protocol of some sort.

      Well, Threads is at least aiming to do that and integrate with Mastodon, but the group mind has decided that this is bad.

      • @darcy@discuss.tchncs.de
        2•1 year ago

        Well, Threads is at least aiming to do that and integrate with Mastodon, but the group mind has decided that this is bad.

        I’m not part of that group mind, but I’m cynical that they will federate. From a business standpoint it doesn’t benefit them, so I’m betting it’s just a buzzword they’re using.