Technology

But Mastodon is built on a technology stack almost as old as Twitter’s, and has largely failed to achieve widespread adoption despite several mass-exoduses from Twitter. BlueSky is more promising, using a brand new protocol called AT which promises to let users not only create their own instances of the service, but filter their feeds with custom algorithms, instead of settling for one centrally-controlled “master algorithm” that prioritizes engagement above all else.

• A new protocol that's not a standard being adopted elsewhere, is not promising, it's just another protocol. AT protocol is MIT license, but it's not a standard, ActivityPub is W3C standard.
• Also isn't creating own instances, something that's common in fediverse, while, is there any other AT protocol instances that's not owned by Bluesky?
• And isn't Bluesky a spinoff from original Twitter? What does she mean by old technology stack? LAMP? Mastodon is built on React, Redux, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, and Postgres. I can't find any info about BlueSky's server stack, but it seems like their frontend is using React, and maybe Go.

Am I fucking crazy, or do people just pluck information out of thin air, without any fact checking and call themselves senior journalists? Does she hold any investment in Bluesky?

Tech “journalists” have no idea how to speak about Mastodon or the fediverse.

They seem to think that unless something has billions of users, it’s dead. They can’t even comprehend how people could prefer a smaller more selective userbase

And another article dismissing the fediverse. This people search for a new master that can hold their data hostage

Threads has all your favorite social media users, such as corporate brand accounts, annoying Instagram influencers, and minor internet celebrities who aren't funny.

What bubble does the author live in where this is considered standout journalism? Like, congratulations on discovering the internet. What rock have they been living in since 1995?

The article reads as if it could have been written a month ago. My Threads timeline (albeit currently algorithmic) has settled into just accounts (news, tech, sports) I follow. Twitter is toast.

this article doesn't really make it sound any different than twitter other than not allowing porn

Not really. Privacy wise it’s terrible, but user experience is pretty alright I’d say for a microblogging platform. In fact I feel like it’s going to threaten the fediverse by being open at first and then slowly closing up and locking people in, creating an image where all the other nodes should be part of meta’s fediverse and follow certain rules, etc.

Bad article. Not worth the read.

That fact that they made it natively in jetpack compose on android is actually really cool

Stupid article. Threads at the moment is much better than Twitter.

It's a bit weird to see Threads being referred to as Facebook's version of Twitter - wasn't Instagram already Facebook's version of Twitter, just with the gimmick being images of text rather than just the text? This seems like it's basically the same social network with a different interface - all the users are the same and the list of banned content is the same, people are coming in thinking it's the same thing so it will end up being the same.

I mean there's no Elon, which is the worst part of Twitter so...no