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poVoq, 5 months ago

While indeed it was different in some regards, Google did not have a lot of users to begin with and did piggy-back on open standards to get those users. So the stage you are talking about was the last E only.

poVoq, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

You can’t make a lot of money from advertisement to grandma sharing pictures of the grandkids as Meta is realizing on their Facebook service with an aging demographic.

They got the “valuable” livestyle and fashion advertisement market pretty much covered with Instagram, but out side of that the “valuable” demographic of content creators were on Twitter.

Threads is about capturing that demographic, and a lot of them fled Twitter to the Fediverse.

Total number of users matter little if you don’t have creators other users find interesting to follow. The shere numbers Meta still has, but it doesn’t have much cloud with the quality content creators.

poVoq, 5 months ago

The playbook is like this: first leech off the community and good will spirit of highly active content creators on the fediverse. Those are only 1% of the total user number, but they have most of the attention of the others and thus drive advertisement revenue.

They will try to lure them over if they can, but otherwise benefit from advertising to remote followers from their platform. Once Threads is basically synonymous with Fediverse as far as normal users are concerned, make it increasingly difficult to stay off Threads for the content creators as well.

At that point AP is dead as a dodo, even if technically still existing.

poVoq, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Both were small upstarts at the time, with Jabber (via the Pidgin client) having significantly more pull in the influential tech demographic than Gmail as just another email service had at the time. Google Talk didn’t even exist then.

People remember Gmail because it won. Memory is funny like that, as you say yourself 😏

poVoq, 5 months ago

Many professional hosters have certifications, but the problem with that is usually that in a mostly fossil electricity grid, buying up some renewable capacity doesn’t really change much even if technically you can claim to run on 100% renewable energy.

For my private system I’ll probably put up a public Grafana dashboard at some point that will show the amount of electricity produced and the battery charge status. But I will have a few other things connected to it, not only the servers running slrpnk.net

poVoq, 5 months ago

Do I understand the changelog correctly that you added an automatic login cookie migration for using Photon as a drop-in replacement for Lemmy-ui recently?