Meta has lost $45bn on #Metaverse since 2020. #Meta could have bought #Twitter and still had $1bn left in the bank.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/metas-reality-labs-posts-3point85-billion-loss-in-first-quarter.html

Meta's Reality Labs posts $3.85 billion loss in first quarter

Mark Zuckerberg's bet on the metaverse continues to be a money-bleeding endeavor, with the unit reporting billions of dollars in losses every quarter.

^{Alex Koller (CNBC)}

Meta lost $3.85 billion on the metaverse in the first quarter of 2024 alone. You know, that thing we all laughed about a couple years ago and next to no one actually uses.

It’s burned $45 billion on the metaverse since the end of 2020.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/metas-reality-labs-posts-3point85-billion-loss-in-first-quarter.html

#tech #meta #metaverse #vr

Meta's Reality Labs posts $3.85 billion loss in first quarter

Mark Zuckerberg's bet on the metaverse continues to be a money-bleeding endeavor, with the unit reporting billions of dollars in losses every quarter.

^{Alex Koller (CNBC)}

You are not wrong. You may be an alarmist, but that may be a good thing in this case.

#facebook is #malware

#Meta and #AlphaBet are #parasites that use #vampire business models to extract your #essential #data and then resell it to other parasites in an ever expanding #cannibalistic #orgy of #greed cloaked in the #liturgy of #capitalism.

#EatTheRich

Some people get replies and just do not engage at all....

Like, what is the point of posting to social media if you're not even gonna be SOCIAL?!?🤦‍♂️

Especially Fedi, cause it's not like we have some dumb ad service that pays you for views...You ain't making money here unless you're posting off-platform links to buy stuff.

I just don't get it. It's social media. Not "shout to the void and ignore everyone" media.🙄

#Fediverse #Meta #Fedi #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Sharkey #Misskey #Pleroma #Akkoma #IceShrimp #FireFish #GoToSocial #Friendica #Peertube #PixelFed #Hubzilla #Lemmy #Kbin #Mbin #SocialMedia #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #Twitter #Myspace #Digg #Youtube

Threads is the largest player so far to adopt #ActivityPub, and as @mike says, “The implications are huge.”

Why is Threads doing this? How is the team working with the community? How are they thinking about moderation, monetization and privacy in these early days and going forward?
In the newest episode of @dot_social, Mike digs in with @rklambo, Director of Product Management, and @pcottle, Software Engineer. Check it out in the fediverse on PeerTube or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. More details here:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/threads-dot-social/

#DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #Federation #MastodonMigration #Threads #Meta #ActivityPub #Flipboard

Threads Has Entered the Building (and the Dot Social Podcast) - Flipboard

Threads is the largest player so far to adopt ActivityPub, which is needed for the open social web to scale. Why is Threads doing this?

^{Mia Quagliarello (Flipboard)}

Well, I have deleted the Threads app. They don't seem interested in integrating in good faith, unfortunately. Therefore I don't see any point in advocating for them further.

Federate with them if you wish, but my first hand experience with their dev team has been completely in bad faith on their part...🤦‍♂️

#Threads #Fediverse #Meta #Fedi #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Sharkey #Misskey #Pleroma #Akkoma #IceShrimp #FireFish #GoToSocial #Friendica #Peertube #PixelFed #Hubzilla #Lemmy #Kbin #Mbin

Not sure if other people do this, but I use notifications of favorites/boosts as a discovery mechanism for accounts to possibly follow.

I mean it's a potential sign they have similar interests, so might as well visit the profile and see if they post interesting stuff you want to see more of.

I'll often favorite a few posts along the way too, which I hope doesn't seem too weird to people!

#Fedi #Meta #MetaFedi #FediMeta #Favorites #Discovery #RandomTags

And here it is, the dark pattern at work....this threads integration is starting to go badly already....🤦‍♂️🙄

edit: and here's a threads engineer purposefully misconstruing the definition of dark patterns in a reply to me. https://social.beaware.live/@beaware.live@threads.net/112312317899201996 🤬

#Fedi #Fediverse #Threads #EEE #Meta #ActivityPub

@BeAware

Boop!

#Meta #Threads #Fedi

And it’s why you do not pursue #meta on #DMA over their #Whatsapp who use #social #pressure to maintain their #monopoly ?

or #Google that hide @Tutanota from their #search or #meta again that hide #mastodon integration behind a #scare #screen.

We've got new Dot Social podcast episodes coming with fediverse leaders, starting with @mike's conversation with Meta's @rklambo and @pcottle, two key people building #Threads. That one releases on Monday, followed by episodes with @snarfed.org and @molly0xfff. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Here's more info:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-social-new-episodes/

#DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #Flipboard #Federation #MastodonMigration #ActivityPub #Meta #Threads #MetaThreads #BridgyFed #Web3

Dot Social Podcast Launches New Episodes - Flipboard

New episodes are coming featuring the builders at Threads, Ryan Barrett and Molly White. Don't miss Mike McCue's show with fediverse leaders.

^{Mia Quagliarello (Flipboard)}

“Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group as a suspected militant. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?”

‪https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/

I feel we have to make this relevant to USians given how low the exchange rate of Palestinian lives to the US Dollar is: Think of it this way, this probably means your credit score is also affected by the people in your WhatsApp groups.

(So, do we finally have your attention?)🤞

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #Meta

Meta and Lavender

A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2].

^{Paul Biggar}

Meta is allegedly sharing Whatsapp data to the IDF.

"Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group as a suspected militant. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?"

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/

#Palestine #Meta

Meta and Lavender

A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2].

^{Paul Biggar}

🥳WIN: Today, @eu_edpb heard civil society's voices to stand up for people's right to have control over their data.

@POLITICOEurope reports: EDPB opposed #Meta plan to charge for privacy. #PayorOkay

EDRi's Policy Advisor @itxaso explains why privacy is not for sale for @euronews: https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/04/15/meta-must-stop-charging-for-peoples-right-to-privacy

I'm seeing the same thing! Pretty cool!

I can follow and like my THREADS account from Mastodon, but I can't figure out how to follow my Mastodon account on the Threads side. Have you been able to get it to work?

#Threads #Mastodon #Follow #Fediverse #Meta

Last month, Meta's Threads took its first step into the fediverse. @quillmatiq@mastodon.social, aka @quillmatiq@threads.net took that as his cue to experiment with how his Threads feed would look like on Mastodon. Here's what he discovered about organizing the chaos, different clients (hello @phanpy) and whether he'll cut the Threads cord when federation is complete.

https://flip.it/P_h74r

#Federation #Threads #Meta #Fediverse #ActivityPub #SpreadMastodon #Mastodon #SocialMedia #OpenSocialWeb

Threads on Mastodon and The Bright Future of the Fediverse

This is my journey that started as an experiment to see how my Threads feed would look like on Mastodon and ended with me finding experiences that went above and beyond my expectations.

^{Anuj Ahooja (augment)}

I’m seeing a lot of people badmouthing Facebook/Meta and saying we shouldn’t federate with Threads.

Mastodon.social is owned by Mastodon gGmbH and run by the *author* of Mastodon. Mastodon.social federates with Threads. If Facebook/Meta were toxic, do you think they would? Of course, not.

Facebook/Meta has Mastodon’s author’s (& the original Mastodon server’s) seal of approval. So you should all shush because clearly you’re mistaken.

https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/

#mastodon #meta #facebook #threads

How Mastodon made friends with Meta

Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol

^{Zoë Schiffer (Platformer)}

how long until threads threatens to or actually does start blocking mastodon.social for allowing nudity?

would dot social bend the knee in that scenario and change their policy? probably

https://help.instagram.com/914046486923176

#FediPact #meta #threads

Wondering how many publications are going to hesitate to print criticism of #meta, now that Facebook has shown they'll make an offending outlet invisible with a snap of their fingers.

Remind me how federating with Threads is good for openness, again?

https://werd.social/@ben/112225519541277604

Report: OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta Stole Content at Scale to Train AI

"...OpenAI in 2021 created a speech recognition tool called Whisper that could transcribe the audio in YouTube videos to create text for training its ChatGPT AI. It did so despite the opposition of employees who argued that Whisper violated YouTube’s rules. And it did so at scale, creating over one million hours of YouTube video transcripts."

#OpenAI #Google #Meta #Tech #AI #YouTube

https://www.thurrott.com/a-i/300524/new-report-documents-how-openai-microsoft-google-and-meta-stole-content-to-train-ai

“The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate change — deeming them ‘too controversial’.

Facebook then censored the article about Facebook censorship, and then after an independent site published a copy of the climate change article, Facebook censored it too.”

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10657-facebook-is-censoring-stories-about-illegal-raid-in-marion-kansas

Welcome to the fediverse, friend.

https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/

#facebook #meta #fediverse #threads #mastodon #mastodonDotSocial #mastodonGGMBH

How Mastodon made friends with Meta

Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol

^{Zoë Schiffer (Platformer)}

Can someone please tell me if this is in fact the case?

(I couldn’t quote this post by @atomicpoet so I made a screenshot.)

#AskFedi #Mastodon #FediVerse #Meta #Threads

If you’re on mastodon.social, I would highly recommend that you switch to a different server that protects its people instead of exposing them to a well-known bad actor like Facebook/Meta via Threads.

For alternatives, see: https://fedipact.veganism.social

And remember that Mastodon is not the fediverse. The fediverse is much more than just Mastodon and definitely more so than mastodon.social and Mastodon gGmbH.

#mastodonSocial #mastodonGGMBH #mastodon #fediverse #threads #facebook #meta

Preparing for the merger…

#threads #meta #facebook #fediverse #fedipact #mastodon #logodesign #typography

De-federating #Threads does NOT prevent #Meta from accessing your public #Fediverse feed.

This is demonstrably false. Almost all servers that de-federate Threads still broadcast the RSS feed of your posts. This is available to everyone, even servers that are de-federated from yours.

If you don’t believe me, test this out for yourself. Append “.rss” to the end of your profile URL (exampleserver.com/@username.rss), and see what happens.

Hell, if I wanted to build a search engine for the Fediverse and not use ActivityPub, I could use RSS instead and I could index most of the Fediverse – whether you opt into it or not.

Let’s stop spreading the myth that de-federation by itself prevents Threads from accessing your public feed.

@fediversenews

NASA captures stunning photo of mastodon.social federating with Threads.

#threads #meta #facebook #mastodonSocial #resistenceIsFutile