I know #WhatsApp is popular amongst Americans 🇺🇸 who travel outside of the country, but I doubt #Meta will replace #iMessage in the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 in the near future.
#Apple has already lost to #Facebook Messenger in #America 🇺🇸, so in a sense @zuck has already won.
A lot of people have insisted #Meta isn't getting involved with the #Fediverse to embrace, extend and extinguish it...
... but even before fully implementing Fediverse interoperability in #Threads they're already talking openly about changing its protocols to add features like monetization. 🤔
Text in a screenshot reads as follows: McCue riffed on the idea that fediverse users could become creators where some of their content became available to subscribers only, similar to how Patreon works. For instance, fediverse advocate and co-editor of ActivityPub Evan Prodromou created a paid Mastodon account (@evanplus) that users could subscribe to for $5 per month to gain access. If he’s on board with paid content, surely others would follow. Cottle agreed that the model could work with the fediverse, too. He additionally suggested there are ways the fediverse could monetize beyond donations, which is what often powers various efforts today, like Mastodon. Cottle said someone might even make a fediverse experience that consumers would pay for, the way some fediverse client apps are paid today.
Okay, so another set of stats now that April is over.
As I've said before, I am posting concurrently to Pixefed and Instagram to see what the differences are.
Let's break it down by month first. Here are average likes by month for the year to date:
January - Insta 20 / Pixelfed 8
February - Insta 21 / Pixelfed 8
March - Insta 27 / Pixelfed 11
April - Insta 26 / Pixelfed 9
Year to date, we're averaging 23.7 likes per post on Insta and 9.1 likes per post on Pixelfed.
First, let's look at most likes of the month. For April, my most liked post on Instagram was my post for Wotakoi, Volume 4 with 43 likes. For comparison, the same post on Pixelfed got 9 likes. https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/680406871658815035
Year to date - cat pics are averaging 20 likes per post on Insta and 25 likes per post on Pixelfed. Manga does well on Instagram with 28 likes per post on average; on Pixelfed? 5 likes on average.
Flowers or "Bloomscrolling" does well on Pixelfed with 25 likes per post; on Insta it's 23 likes per post.
Basically, trends in what I post show an interesting top list.
In a world of algorithms, my manga posts are being caught into their algorithm pattern and being seen by more people. In a world without algorithms (i.e. Fedi), people like to see pictures of flowers and cats.
I mean, I get it.
Oh - and year to date, I'm averaging 0.05 likes per follower on Insta and 0.08 likes per follower on Pixelfed.
And current follower count:
Instagram - 454 (+68 since 2023)
Pixelfed - 117 (+40 since 2023)
Meta has announced that Batman: Arkham Shadow will be the first big exclusive game for its Quest 3 VR headset.
It’s an important step forward for the device. As @engadget reports: “One of the main reasons it has been difficult to recommend the $500 Quest 3 VR headset over the $200 Quest 2 is a lack of exclusive titles, as most games have to support both models. This means we haven’t really seen the power of the Quest 3 yet, but the tides are turning.”
Interessant, dass eine Institution da jetzt erst drauf kommt. Manche hier wissen das schon seit Jahren.
Weiss auch nicht, aber was neues ist das jetzt nicht. Meta war schon immer ein Höllenloch, wer sich da rumtreibt, lebt einfach hinterm Mond was Content Moderration, Meldemöglichkeiten und Sanktionierungen von Accounts/Postings angeht.
Als Francis Haugen vor dem EU Parlament aussagte, hätten die dort eigtl schon alles wissen können. Da brauchts nicht erst noch ne eigene Untersuchung. Meta ist das Befinden der Nutzer:innen völlig egal, denen gehts halt einfach nur um Profit. 🤷♀️
With its long-form Articles feature (for Premium+ users), #Twitter is going after not just #Substack, but also blogs. This worries me because it might actually work. This level of centralization won't be healthy, because it actually prevents innovation and experimentation for building better reputation systems. We will be stuck with Twitter's algorithms for a long time.
A lot of action is happening in this space lately. #Meta launched #Threads , #Ghost is going to federate over #ActivityPub , #Mastodon is becoming a US non-profit (with a Twitter co-founder on the board).
An open publishing network - now THAT is exciting!
In another context, there was a discussion, in recent past, that some members of Indian government suggested taking the extreme measure of blocking Proton due to a hoax bomb threat that were sent through Proton Mail. Finally it did not happen.
I believe that that Meta will not pull out of India and the existing encryption standards of WhatsApp will not change for Indian users. With more than 500 million active users in India, the stakes are too high from either side.
– »Die EU-Kommission leitet ein Verfahren gegen Meta ein«
– »Brüssel: Meta lässt sich für russische Desinformation bezahlen«
– »EU-Kommission eröffnet Verfahren gegen Meta«
…und wird dies einschreitende Einwirkung haben, so wie die USA TikTok unterbinden möchte oder wie einen der vielen IT & Datenschutz Klagen, die dann so gut wie in's Lehre laufen?
EU is pressuring Meta due to fears of Russian interference in elections (www.theguardian.com)
Action against Facebook owner comes amid deep concerns about how it is dealing with fake news