This is what Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor looks like
This is what Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor looks like
Meta says people want a communications platform that’s “sanely run.”
Meta is talking to celebrities like Oprah and the Dalai Lama about being early users. ‘We’ve been hearing from creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run,’ a top exec told employees.
interested in having a platform that is sanely run
By the people whose other platform keeps inspiring genocides?
Can we fucking not?
If there using activitypub just imagine we might be able to fellow Oprah Winfrey from lemmy thats so weird to think about
Executives are really obsessed with making every platform copy every other platform. When Facebook added reactions suddenly every social media had to have them. When TikTok took off suddenly every social media needed to copy it (ie YouTube Shorts, Facebook Stories). Now this...
Why innovate when you can imitate?
Or if you're Oracle, why innovate when you can litigate?
Looks like Facebook is trying to scoop up the Twitter userbase now that it's burning down.
I'm not opposed to a Twitter replacement/rival, but I really wish it wasn't in the Facebook family.
I wont touch Meta products... so wont use it
Agreed, this is not the solution I'm looking for. It's not quite there in terms of user on-boarding, but I'm rooting for Mastodon.
Open source and/or federated options should be the ultimate goal for the community needs of the internet. At least we have those options now--albeit in smaller scale than the originals. I don't think they'll reach mass adoption, though. Too many people don't care or have become accustomed to the "free" centralized mega-hub websites to want an alternative. Look at current criticisms of lemmy et al.
Using ActivityPub is an interesting twist I did not see coming. I could see myself trying this, despite my problems with Meta, especially because running social media for a church means I can’t really give up Facebook or Instagram and because people I know might actually sign up for it.
Not on Mastodon at the moment, but with the way Twitter has been heading it might be worth looking into, especially because getting on Lemmy helped me understand the Fediverse better.
the real question though: will it support groups/communities?