• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.usEnglish
      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.

      Edit: Also note that this lines up with other timelines for the fediverse elsewhere, e.g. https://codeberg.org/ddfon/federated-sns/src/branch/main/fediverse-history.markdown which states the first fediverse post was made in 2008

      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…