Hawkmoon, 10 months ago

@arstechnica

Why does the FTC care about Meta but not the bird site or the red site?

Or do they?

JakeBartolin, 10 months ago

@arstechnica "Some users have complained that their feeds are flooded with content from accounts they never followed, seemingly outnumbering posts from friends."

That's probably a feature...not a bug. If your friends aren't posting enough content to keep you on the app, the algorithm will find more to grab your attention.

mlanger, 10 months ago

@arstechnica

Because the average Instagram user is an idiot.

schack, 10 months ago

@arstechnica and not one is european since we’re the ones with some strict privacy laws that Meta doesn’t like. Good for us. 😁

stillnotahero, 10 months ago

@arstechnica you folks at Ars Technica have been doing an awesome job of following the #RedditMigration and subsequent rise in popularity of the #Fediverse . Sincerely, thank you. It has been nice to follow along.

chicanomuslim, 10 months ago

@arstechnica yeah but you can't delete threads without also losing your Instagram

darwinwoodka, 10 months ago

@arstechnica

hmmmmmmmm

Steve8282, 10 months ago

@arstechnica This is how Republicans get elected.

vitriolix, 10 months ago

@arstechnica just for context, that's <1% of it's user base

httpjames, 10 months ago

@vitriolix Honestly, that’s still impressive… It’s definitely not easy to move 1.62 billion users lol

vitriolix, 10 months ago

@httpjames yeah, it is an it isn't. the real test will be if they can sustain and retain. they had a pretty big head start to pull in power users / early adopters with a pretty streamlined process for setup and building out your core network, the key is do they get any traction with the rest of their user base.

I'd predict, for what that's worth that yes, they'll get some pretty big traction but they won't rival twitter any time soon