effingjoe

I am mostly judging by the “hot” feed, since I only follow a few people that I knew via Twitter, and to a significant degree you’re right-- there was the same kind of drama on kbin and lemmy when I joined. (I checked out threads for ~30 seconds so I can’t say about there) I don’t remember anything like that on Mastodon, but I’m sure it’s there. It seemed more rapid-fire on bluesky. Specifically there seemed to be a lot of hate against the devs on Bluesky for various reasons.

In any event, it’s a pretty big echo chamber right now but that’s to be expected while it’s in invite-only. I’m sure it will settle out when it opens up to the general public.

It’s very… dramatic over there, and I know it’s supposed to be a beta (trust me, I know) but there seems to be a lot of missing functionality. I pop in every few days and it’s like there a new moral outrage about bluesky each time.

I think the person you replied to is still stuck in the mindset of a siloed product, like reddit. Federation across instances means that there’s little commercial value in any specific instance, in my view. If any specific instance was sold, and an attempt to monetize arose, I suspect people would simply abandon it for a new instance.

As an aside, lemmy/kbin need to implement a way to export/import follow lists.

and honestly, businesses too. There is opportunity here in the business sector, I think.

I haven’t looked into it much, but as I understand it, you can “deactivate” a threads account, but as you say, you cannot delete it without also deleting Instagram.

At least Twitter had a way to only view the people you followed, if you could find it. I only spent a short time looking for it, but I couldn’t find any option to do this in threads. That makes it worse than Twitter, as far as I’m concerned. (And man is that a race to the bottom haha)

Edit: and no edit on threads, either. Yes, this edit was performative.

I never was much of a Twitter user (and if we’re being honest, that carried over to Mastodon) but after about 30 seconds on Threads I hated being bombarded with posts from people I didn’t know or care to know desperately trying to attract followers on the new platform. Threads is (unsurprisingly) making itself into a clone of late-stage Twitter, instead of Twitter back in the day. Hard pass

Oh. Yeah that’s nonsense.

I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about. What is a fedipact? What does me signing it (or not signing it) mean? Does it say something about NDAs? I’ve under one right now for work.

What “level playing field” are you referencing? With respect to what?

I keep getting the feeling you’ve never actually been under an NDA.

What are you imagining the worst-case scenario is for what could be discussed? You clearly have globbed on to this idea and NDAs mean something nefarious is going on, and since you apparently can’t be reasoned out of that particular conspiracy theory, help me understand what your concern is.

Any corporation is going to make non employees sign an NDA before showing them internal information. This is not a red flag in and of itself.

NDAs are pretty standard practice in corporate environments, and they don’t automatically mean there’s something nefarious going on.

I do wish that the Magazines themselves had a create a post option

From my experience, the create post option auto-fills with the magazine you are currently viewing. Is there some added benefit to having a different button inside the magazines themselves?

I’m hoping (actually, expecting-- if we’re being honest) that features are added to reddit-esque apps like lemmy and kbin that allow you to make personal groups of magazines/communities. This would very nearly solve the fragmentation “problem”. Better yet if they add a way to share these personal groups to be imported by others.

Then we would get the benefits that come with decentralization, but without the detriments that come along with it.

People seem pretty annoyed at the changes to usernames, but probably not enough to leave Discord.