Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds?
ianbetteridge.com
​ There has been a lot of chatter about the decision of some instances on Mastodon to pre-emptively block Meta’s purported new ActivityPub-compatible service: Dare Obasanjo: It’s a weird own …

A very detailed article about the whole Meta (Instagram/Threads) vs. Fediverse discussions. It’s a long read, but well-worth it if you’re interested in the subject.

  • CapedStanker@beehaw.orgEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    People act like facebook isn’t a hellspawn of far right hatred, fascism, and general stupidity in all of it’s glorious forms. I’m just fine with my instance defederating them because Im just fine with not seeing posts from Moms for Liberty, or proud boys, or ivermectin treatments, or whatever the fuck goes on over there now a days. If I wanted to see facebook shit, I’d go to fuckin’ facebook wouldn’t I? It has little to do with corporate or not corporate.

    • aksdb@feddit.deEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      It has little to do with corporate or not corporate.

      It does a little. Because controversy sells better. And scandals are free marketing. So these platforms thrive off this shitty content. At a minimum they tolerate it. Maybe they even actively push it.

      • FoxBJK@midwest.socialEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Given that they default to showing an algorithmically curated feed, instead of just by most recent, a strong argument can be made that they’re actively pushing the content you see.

        But the guy above is right, it’s more about the choice of affiliation. Certain communities will want their privacy just by their nature.

        • Widget@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, they’re not pushing it because it matches some far-right authoritarian ideology Meta itself has, they’re pushing it because conservatives taunting libs who fall for it and try to talk reason into conservatives drives tons of engagement.