Notices by O. Simard-Casanova in English (osc@econtwitter.net)

@tshirtman I'm assuming this is what happens when people live in extremely ideological cognitive worlds

They see everything through one, single ideological lense, regardless of wether it makes sense or not

I don't trust Meta, but it's not a reason to invent facts

I think there's a scenario that has been barely discussed involving #Threads and the #Fediverse, but it's an interesting one

Mosseri has said that Threads users will be able to migrate their account

Let's assume Threads is a failure and #Meta decides to kill it

By Meta's standard, even if Threads is a failure, it will probably have dozens of millions of active users

Even if a portion of them wants to stay in the Fediverse, they will need to migrate somewhere else

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In this scenario, a significant share of #Threads users would migrate to non-Meta parts of the Fediverse, such as Mastodon

I don't wish for Threads to fail. But in this scenario, so many users sticking to the #Fediverse would still be an improvement, number wise, compared to the current dynamics.

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Multiple people have responded that they actively wish for Threads to fail

Wishing such a blow to the Fediverse is a hell of a take

@tshirtman All of this is almost a textbook example of a moral panic

People speculate from very little information, they conflate their opinions with facts, and end up with some catastrophic conclusion that push them to take irrational, drastic actions

This is a very uninteresting debate

@feditips @ThePlant This is a hell of an extremist position

@feditips @ThePlant @Mastodon What about answering to the things I actually said, instead of answering to strawmen?

@feditips @ThePlant @Mastodon Microsoft used to be extremely hostile to anything open source, something Nadella completely changed

The fact they do shitty things on other dimensions has no bearing on the fact they changed their stance on open source

@feditips @ThePlant @Mastodon I'm sorry but this is complete nonsense

Microsoft used to play dirty, but is now financing a ton of terrific open source projects

Assuming that one day Meta changes the same way Microsoft changed, should Mastodon refuses this money like forever?

The #RSS reader #NewsExplorer is the latest casualty of the #TwitterAPI new pricing

News Explorer had a very neat #Twitter integration, but due to the new API pricing, the dev had to remove it last week (any paid tier would have been financially unsustainable)

Instead, News Explorer now has native… #Mastodon integration

It's really on brand to watch another RSS reader replacing Twitter by Mastodon

https://betamagic.nl/news/2023/2023_01.html

Thousands of subreddits are currently dark

(Edit: a previous version stated that 85% of subreddits were dark. It’s 85% of those that announced to join the protest.)

We'll see if #Reddit backs out its ludicrous new API pricing, and apologizes to the community. I wouldn't bet on that though. #Musk shows that incompetent social media CEOs are incapable to understand what makes their company worthy (the users). And the CEO of Reddit showed a similar level of incompetency.

https://reddark.untone.uk

#Musk wants to remove the block feature on #Twitter

This will first impact women and minorities. #Mastodon really needs to become a more welcoming place for *everyone*, regardless on how the person uses the platform.

"Go back to Twitter if you aren’t happy on here" is an increasingly untenable, and dangerous, thing to say