• @givesomefucksEnglish
    5•2 months ago

    They’re counting Threads users…

    And touting “15 years of the fediverse” while ignoring for all but a year it’s been lemmy.ml and literally Nazis.

    There’s not really any good takes in that article, it’s like they don’t know anything about the topic.

    • abff08f4813cEnglish
      2•2 months ago

      They’re counting Threads users…

      It seems like they acknowledge that Threads is part of the mainstream though.

      Mainstream Social Platforms: A Less Hospitable Arena Every Day
      Instagram and Threads downrank “political content” in their algorithms

      And also not fully counting Threads as part of the fediverse, as per,

      Threads … has adopted the fediverse, … as they build towards full integration.

      Moving on,

      And touting “15 years of the fediverse” while ignoring for all but a year it’s been lemmy.ml

      Uh, no. Mastodon was on ActivityPub before there was a Lemmy. And 15 years takes us back to 2008 - so they’re counting the pre-ActivityPub and pre-“fediverse has been coined” days too: as per https://www.britannica.com/technology/fediverse there was the OpenMicroBlogging protocol back then.

      it’s like they don’t know anything about the topic.

      I found the article highly knowledgeable about the topic. Some of the folks on this thread, on the other hand…