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Threads’ Fediverse integration now is “in maintenance mode”.

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Threads wants to be the app you can’t wait to open in the morning

A conversation with the head of Threads Connor Hayes on creators, ads, and the fediverse.

#fediforumfriday #threads

@rose.bsky.team from Bluesky: We started with 90% of users being posters, now we are at 30%, but compare this with 1% on some commercial platforms. Conversations are happening again.

OH: ASCII Imperialism. Not wrong. Still funny.

Totally agree with Cory. Today’s “AI” may or may not be useful to you or your company, but there is no way that it is financially sustainable. And giving the sheer outrageous magnitude of money involved, when the crash comes — and it will — it will likely be worse than any other crash we’ve ever seen. From: @npub1fdrp...lvhs

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

Attached: 1 image Like you, I'm sick to the back teeth of talking about AI. Like you, I keep getting dragged into AI discussions. Unlike you‡, I...

Learned a new word: Enshittocene. @npub1fdrp...lvhs what have you done.

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Enshittocene

Internet history from about 2013 to 2021.

I'm fascinated to (re-?)discover that the core #ActivityPub deliverable was the C2S API, not the S3S federation protocol. Was the underlying assumption that servers were boring, one/few implementations could handle all cases, and innovation was going to be centered around clients?

From Enshittification to Disenshittification. The words keep coming to @npub1fdrp...lvhs ! http://disenshittification.org/

I have no words. Maybe I should have words, but I don't. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-weighs-sanctions-officials-implementing-eu-tech-law-sources-2025-08-26/ #europe #dsa

What would it cost to run the #fediverse at scale? With billions instead of millions of users? What does it cost to run a social network anyway? According to the annual reports of two companies that should know, the comparable seems to be about $1-$2 per user per month. And that's after stripping out a bunch of costs, like us not building ad tech in the fediverse. Have better numbers? I'd love to see them! From a recent talk of mine:

Spectra Video

From Millions To Billions — Johannes Ernst — FediCon 2025

Johannes Ernst gave a talk at FediCon 2025: From Millions to Billions: A plausible narrative for growing the Open Social Web. Johannes Ernst is a E...

The world we have -- in social media, and more broadly in tech -- vs the world we want. Does this look about right?