@KimPerales It's bizarre that they describe Altman as one of their 'most successful alumni' since just about everything he did before OpenAI failed on its merits. But he was able to leverage them to get progressively more-lucrative gigs, whether or not the companies actually did well, so I guess that makes him "successful" - as a grifter.
#Meta $META down 14% overnight. I see a large "nib" in the 5 year chart during 2022 that may force a retest of 52 week lows @$207 USD per share. #facebook #premarket #investing #zuck
If you're one of the fediverse influencers who sees Threads arrival it as "historic" and "a glimpse of the future" ... well, you might want to skip this post.
But if you're one of the many many people on the fediverse who doesn't want to deal with Threads, read on!
Welp, it just happened. #Zuck became the most followed person in the #Fediverse with a follower count of more than 4 times that of @Mastodon itself
Of course, those are only rough numbers. Most of the people following him are on Threads, and many do not even know anything about decentralized social platforms (or care). People outside of Threads that are following him are few (including myself, now*).
But this is more of a symbolic thing. Once other profiles enable the Fediverse integration, we'll be seeing more and more Threads profiles topping the charts. Or maybe not, who knows. I already start to see many profiles on Threads that stopped posting since quite a while, and I'm wondering if they're still active. Many people on other centralized platforms just call Threads dead already, lol.
OTOH, even the overall atmosphere on Threads just seems to be... subpar to say the least. I really don't feel I could learn anything from the people out there, apart from a few dozen interesting profiles that are simply just hard to find - they were hard to find on Insta, they are hard to find there as well. If, for whatever reason, Threads were to simply turn the federation off abruptly, I wouldn't feel anything of value would be lost apart from these profiles, at least for me. I wonder how long it will take until it will be just another enshittified, ad-ridden, useless platform, just like the other two in #Meta's portfolio are, all filled with trolls, bots, scammers and propaganda accounts of the Kremlin-backed modern far-right that spread the lies and nonsense.
If you have a presence on Mastodon, yet you'd also love to try out Threads, you're not missing anything. Really. This place is just way better, and it centers not around advertisers, but around you.
*you traitor, how dare you follow the Satan over this place? well, I actually thought it out for a bit. And I don't know if I'll keep the follow on the long term either. But this is just part of my way to #quitfacebook, as funny as it may seem. It is just one of the many active accounts/pages that I still follow on that cesspit, so I thought, why not.
I also have a habit of checking my profile from various servers, and I'm having a hard time seeing even my popular posts. So I can say #Friendica keeps me quite protected from the aforementioned. Plus that Meta doesn't have any ads to serve me around this place.
A small addendum to what I previously wrote: You can already see this in practice.
I was just scrolling through the list, which is now populated by other Threads accounts as well, and I found this account, that I won't tag here (for people on Mastodon, see pic 1). It already tops place 134 as the most followed account in the Fediverse, as of writing.
This person publicly claims that is an Amazon Associate and that is posting affiliate links from which is earning money from qualifying purchases - and as expected, the profile is full of these links (see picture 2 if on Mastodon).
Now, one might say, "but what's wrong with this? People might be interested in getting deals on stuff they want" - and this is true, I do not think what this person posts is simply useless or toxic to everyone. But the fact that it's so high up in the top of the most followed Fediverse profiles gets me worried. Many people do see stuff like this as spam, and would rather not see that in their feed.
And if that person is also paying to get higher up in the feeds of Threads users, specially those that are not following the guy, that is spam, and it's not the appropriate behavior.
This is just illustrative of the state of Threads, another #Meta product, next to #Facebook and #Instagram, and why any self-hostable, open source Fediverse platform is still a better choice to the Fediverse overall, than it. It is also concerning if more such profiles are topping the most followed Fediverse profiles and destroying its quality overall.
#Zuck = #Musk. RW (mostly GOP) CEOs can't be trusted:
"155M impressions should be a bipartisan 5 alarm fire in this moment. “Meta’s failure to ID a coordinated ad campaign featuring dozens of inauthentic pages, deepfake videos, & pro-RU disinfo. run by a sanctioned indiv…” -J Kint
@KimPerales So funny when I can’t even run an ad because Meta thinks I’m targeting children. I’m not. I’m targeting their parents to help them get healthcare for their kids. I guess I need to submit from a Russian IP address and it will sail through. 🙄
Would #meta get in trouble with EU govts if #threads didn't provide evidence of working towards interoperability before being available there? Cause I believe that starts tomorrow and that's what this extremely basic "maybe you'll be able to see our posts soon" statement by #Zuck etc looks like to me. I'm one of those lefties who thinks corporations only act for profit and never otherwise in the public interest. Maybe I'm just too dumb to see how true federation makes business sense for them.
Foreign meddlers, like CN: successful bc the SM platforms are compromised by R-leaning, anarcho-capitalist owners: #Meta#Facebook#IG#X#Zuck#Musk.
Meta closes nearly 4,800 fake accts in CH that tried to polarize US voters *impersonating Americans spread pol content aiming to divide country ahead of election yr. Newly ID'ed NWK -US foreign adversaries exploit US-based tech platforms to sow discord & distrust & threats: online disinfo. next yr🚨-nat. elections in US... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/30/china-fake-accounts-facebook-instagram
#Zuck backs dismantling the USG, just like Republicans, #TechBros, #AnarchoCapitalists... They're antidemocratic & fascist, don't want to be regulated & refuse to pay their fair share in taxes. The results of deregulation are devastating & deadly, e.g.:
"What is Facebook’s response to the ugly stories on how it tracks and manipulates children? To apologize? To obey the Federal Trade Commission’s order to stop? Nope. Zuckerberg just asked a court to declare the FTC unconstitutional." -M Stoller
"Always comes back to Meta’s surveillance capitalism. The data & microtargeting of ads while managing the PR & policy risk from the negative externalities of minimizing cost of the content." -J Kint
In the lawsuit against Facebook, Stenson said the prevalence of inappropriate content on IG is low, & that the co invests heavily in reducing it.
IG’s algorithm decides: users might have a prurient interest in children🚨.
Facebook pushes abhorrent RW lies. It's being sued, but that doesn't deter CEO Zuckerberg:
"Over the past month, right-wing conspiracy pages on Facebook have spent $75,000 on video ads promoting false claims of an imminent attack on the U.S. power grid. It uses deep fake audio & allege Biden admin involvement, but Facebook still allows them to run." -Kyle Thorp
#TechBros like #Zuck have aided Republicans in their quest to destroy democracy & along the way harmed children… More evidence of #Facebook’s lies: “Classic Facebook move on Thanksgiving eve. Unsealed nearly every redaction 233 pages in 40+ state AGs lawsuit alleging FB knowingly harmed children's mental health with addiction for profit.” -Jason Kint https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1727600435304059207.html