Been having this weird experience of observing Threads users increasingly frustrated by their new chosen overlord. It's like watching from behind one-way glass. Wish them well and would like to help out, but they are trapped inside and there is absolutely nothing anyone can do about that other than to join them inside, which is, of course, absurd.
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Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 15:18:58 JST Mastodon Migration
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 15:18:48 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦
any other reaction than running at a full sprint from a rabid animal means death
if my analogy seems a little dramatic: #meta #threads fully intends the death of #mastodon #fediverse
if again, that seems a little paranoid and hysterical: everyone needs an appreciation of what meta is, what it is driven by, and what it does. as fully evident
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 15:18:56 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦
embrace, extend, extinguish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
and i am not sure why certain people in positions to defederate from threads do not understand the radioactively obvious threat, and immediately defederate
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Panjo (lalah@sakurajima.moe)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 15:18:56 JST Panjo
@benroyce I guess, though this seems less like a full "embrace" and more like an awkward sidehug!
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Panjo (lalah@sakurajima.moe)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 15:18:57 JST Panjo
@mastodonmigration the federation is one-way? why?
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