@jenzi Threads didn’t steal anything. ActivityPub is an open standard. And Mastodon’s extensions to it are also free for anyone to implement.

And what you do is you defederate.

Instead of rolling out the red carpet, which is what actually happened.

@MisterMoo @RosePuckey christ have people never heard of things like "pattern recognition," "history repeating itself," or just the completely reasonable act of "making predictions based on real-world events"???

The overall trend with the FOSS world lately has fucking sucked. Org after org is gradually falling into the same predatory, money-grubbing, privacy-invading, user-exploiting bullshit the big companies do. Supposedly "for survival." People are rational to be sick of it.

@MisterMoo @RosePuckey there are ZERO REASONS to give any tech company the benefit of the doubt in the current climate. Every sus move a FOSS org makes that looks like the same enshittification we've seen over the last 20 years has a crowd of breathless goobers saying "what makes you so SURE?? Nothing's happened YET!! It could be different, YOU'RE ruining everything with your CYNICISM!!"

How fucking gullible can you be? How many times do they have to do this before people get it?

@ophiocephalic @MF_Dume

So, ahhh, where do we go from here? How long until API changes n shit?

@hannu_ikonen
My $0.02 - alternatives. There are numerous possibilities for fedi microblogging emerging. I also advocate cooperative organizational approaches to build immunity to capitalist recuperation. Some posts are pinned to the top of my feed with more detail. Also check out the Developments section of the Free Fediverse wiki

https://freefediverse.org

@aral @MF_Dume

@ophiocephalic @hannu_ikonen Yeah, I agree with seeing what alternatives arise in the short term, while we wait and see how this new org moves and operates.

I would caution artists/creatives about posting work here, because the part of Amir Ghavi's corporate bio that says he's "advised and continues to represent defendant AI model developers in several of the major AI litigations currently filed" makes me think he may be defending them from using other people's work without consent, and that's an entire field of red flags.

Just as an FYI: I see (in my feed, on my instance) that you’re using Mastodon (4.2.8…by a little icon next to your post). It is a shame Mastodon itself doesn’t have similar functionality. If it did you too would see that many people in this very thread already are on other software/services than Mastodon.

The alternatives are already here, and have been for a good couple of years. I could easily name 7-10 other Fediverse services that are as good, or better, than Mastodon already today if comparing features, performance, security and settings. Some are older than Mastodon. Some are quite new.

There are two things Mastodon does better than most of the other services: corporate structure (the very thing this thread discusses but also seem averse to) and from that corporation, better marketing (the other services are usually crap at marketing themselves).

Just my £0.02 as a fly-by comment.

@ophiocephalic @hannu_ikonen

@ninavizz Yep, Biz can attract Silicon Valley money. And Silicon Valley money comes with Silicon Valley expectations and goes to entities compatible with Silicon Valley goals.

How else? Many ways. Sadly – and all too predictably – the EU dropped the ball by not funding it properly and stipulating its own demands to forestall corporate capture.

But are there other ways? Yes. Are there other ways if you’re chasing growth über alles? Probably not.