The same thing that Threads might allegedly do to Mastodon is apparently absolutely desirable when Mastodon does it to the rest of the Fediverse; CW: long (914 characters), Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta, Threads/Meta/Facebook/Zuckerberg
Mastodon itself has been doing all these very same things to the rest of the Fediverse ever since 2016. Largely the very same Mastodon users who are raging against Threads now are not only cheering on Mastodon forcing its ways and its non-standard stuff upon everything that isn't Mastodon, but demanding more of it.
Just for the record: Mastodon was not here first. At least Friendica, Hubzilla and Pleroma were, in this order. And Hubzilla even had ActivityPub before Mastodon.
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I’d take it one step farther and say that even if Threads were to botch the standard like Mastodon, I trust the professional engineers at Threads to do a better job than what I’ve seen coming out of Mastodon’s developers.
EVEN IF Threads is going to be a new boss of the Fediverse, which I don’t think realistic, there’s a good chance that would be an improvement.
Hey, how bout that nodeBB - Great debut into the Fediverse w/ActivityPub, right? W00t :)
Makes me wonder how well nodeBB will work with Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams). After all, all four have a concept of conversations.
@tallship imo the fediverse (and any place on the internet) would be a better platform without microblogging altogether. That artificial limit of a few hundred characters is outright hurting communication.
