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Facebook has tried to compete with Twitter in numerous ways over the years, including copying signature Twitter features such as hashtags and trending topics. But now Facebook’s parent company is taking perhaps its biggest swipe at Twitter yet.

Facebook has tried to compete with Twitter in numerous ways over the years, including copying signature Twitter features such as hashtags and trending topics. But now Facebook’s parent company is taking perhaps its biggest swipe at Twitter yet.

    • InvaderDJ@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      People don’t care about principles when it comes to a social media site (or really anything for that matter). They want something easy to use, that everyone is on.

      • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        I know I’m practically begging for downvotes here, but it is also possible that some people are perfectly aware of the tradeoffs, pros, and cons of social media, and have decided that the positives outweigh the negatives. That you have different priorities doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone else is stupid or ignorant.

        • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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          2 years ago

          It’s ironic how the Fediverse on the one hand celebrates the fact that anyone can join and instances can all do their own things and hold their own views, and then it goes “but not like that” in this case.

          • 00@kbin.social
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            2 years ago

            It’s ironic how the Fediverse on the one hand celebrates the fact that anyone can join and instances can all do their own things and hold their own views

            Yes, all in contrast to corporate enshittification and algorithmic spyware.

            and then it goes “but not like that” in this case.

            Yes, because its corporate social media waiting for enshittification with algorithmic spyware.

            • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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              2 years ago

              If some instance wants to enshittify itself it’s free to do so. The Fediverse makes it straightforward for its users to move to other instances when that happens.

              If Reddit had been magically federated with the rest of the threadiverse, for example, it would have made reacting to their recent API decisions much easier.