How do they keep getting the most important moments so wrong? What an abject failure of a platform.
Don’t these journalists know that they could self-publish their microblogs? It would be so easy for them to set up their own Mastodon instance, and they would not have to worry about being verified, or kowtowing to the whims of a fascist.
I feel like this is a reference to when DeSantis announced his presidential run on a Twitter stream, but it went horribly and was riddled with technical failures.
Now Trump has agreed to be interviewed by Musk on the same kind of stream.
the whole 'one account' thing wont really exist though, as they would be blocked by a metric shit-tonne of instance owners who are either terrified or just plain butt-hurt that corporations might take part that those admins will block the big players.
this will leave users needing to find neutral instances in order to obtain 'one account to rule them all'
Sure, the reactionaries would sign something to not federate, but if threads and youtube start federating, you think things are going to stay the same?
I don’t see how they could harm the fediverse as is. I don’t see how embrace extend extinguish could work, as if they extinguish, then the fediverse would just return to how it is now. There’s no way that people currently on Mastodon would decide to move to threads, as most are on there because they don’t trust big social media companies
That's not the danger, the danger is there being even less incentive to move to opensource alternatives. If you can have one account on e.g youtube with which you can talk to people on threads, send pictures to insta, and receive comments from everywhere, why move?
For the same reason that people use newpipe or invidious instead of the youtube app or website: a better experience. The kind of people who use the official client aren’t going to be moving to be fediverse anyway!
I don't think they care at all about what we're doing here on the Fediverse. Lemmy has like 46k users, PeerTube has like 20k users. That's next to nothing to them and on Youtube a single content creator might have a way bigger audience than all of Lemmy, Peertube, etc. It wouldn't be worth 10 minutes of their time to come up with an embrace and extinguish concept unless that changes substantially and we get like 100x - 1000x that many users. Or there is something else to gain for them. But they're certainly not interested in the userbase here.
To elaborate: it's not about gaining the users from the fediverse: nobody give a shit about us. It's about taking away users from other big platforms.
Imagine if MKBHD realised he could do all his media relations from a single account. He could post a promotional picture (or video) on his youtube account and have it be visible on instagram, threads, twitter, tiktok, etc. . Comments from tiktok accounts would show up on the youtube video to youtube users on youtube.
Or a tiktok user uploading their short videos would have them show up on youtube shorts and insta (/threads) at the same time. Again, engagement from any platform would show up on one single account.
I don't think that's a possibility. All of those platforms make profit by displaying advertisements to people. Thet means they have to bind the users to their website or app. To display ads there. That's why they commonly restrict things and don't interconnect, but keep the users in a walled environment. I don't see any way for that to change with the current business model of all of the social media and big tech companies.
I also like the Fediverse. And I'd think it'd be awesome to have that. But I think it's a very unrealistic idea. Except for maybe if the EU forces them to open up or something like that.
Do you understand what the fediverse does? Do you need to login to lemmy.world in order to make a comment with your lemmy.ca account? Do you need to login to mastodon.social to see responses from mastodon.social users?
From the 90s (in a small patch of Yorkshire), I remember Townies, Scallies, Kevs (seemingly a lot of them were called Kev where I lived), Carlings (a drink of choice, perhaps?), and Scrotes (i.e. ballbags). Neds was sometimes used as an alternative, but wasn’t common.
I don’t think I heard “Chavs” until the early 2000s. Never quite sure if they were actually the same thing - as the “Chav” thing seemed to have a class/wealth element, that “Chavs were poor/working class”, whereas the Townies/Scallies/Kevs of my teen years were certainly all from richer families than me and my friends, they just liked to rob people, smash up bus shelters and shops and attack people (especially those who were “gay looking” or “foreign looking”).
It probably originated there but I think it’s just spread everywhere now. See loads of teens dressed all in black listening to drill music, some even with their faces covered as if they’re off to rob a bank.
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