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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Looks like we've found an even better way to keep the stupidest people off Lemmy.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I wish it was actually a decent reddit replacement, if reddit wasnt the only option and ppl got used to using more than one service they would be more open to trying lemmy too, it's why I wanted digg to succeed

[–] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 66 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Their VR Chat clone didn't quite pan out. Their Twitter clone didn't quite pan out. Onto the Reddit clone.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Their MySpace (or was it Friendster?) clone was a good earner for them despite its crap usability.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Technically it was a mastodon clone

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

i'm curious: what makes it a mastodon clone over a twitter clone?

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

They could federate with servers that didn’t want to federate with them.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Threads' plan is to implement the ActivityPub protocol, the one the fediverse is based on.

In theory threads could then be federated with other ActivityPub servers (Mastodon and Lemmy for example).

In practice, many instance admins saw it as meta's way to invade that space with their own proprietary bullshit on top of it so they can progressively take control of it. So many decided to block threads as soon as it would be able to federate with their instance.

[–] vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 days ago

yup! there was a huge effort over at https://fedipact.online/ with close to like 1000 signatures

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Of course the community blocked it. They didn't even try to disguise their EEE attempt (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish). Duh.

And this isn't the first time. Back in the day Facebook messenger was actually fully XMPP federation compatible! But they pulled the plug on that.

[–] itsapollo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Sure. They targeted Fediverse apps like Mastodon and Bluesky.

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

One thing I don't understand is why they just didn't buy vrchat or one of the others that are even better. Like spatial or viverse.

Would have been a lot simpler and effective than throwing billion after billion at it.

I mean Microsoft did buy altspacevr and completely screwed it up when they made 'mesh' but Microsoft screws everything up, that's just what they do. It would have been easy to do better than that.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, unless they build it into instagram like they did with their snapchat and tiktok clones, I don’t think it stands a chance. Their twitter clone is doing pretty well though I think

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 50 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Dude lucked out on a friendster lookalike and has never come up with a successful original idea since. Also, is he putting on a fake tan in that tumbnail?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago

Sucking up to Trump?

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I would bet money on the fake tan

[–] magnue@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Maybe he's laid off the suncream since the last time the papparazi got him:

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Jesus... more like sun scream, amirite?

[–] magnue@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

thicc (derogatory)

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 7 points 4 days ago

Stop shooting with a camera

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

How do they manage to always find the creepiest photos of Zuckerberg? The skin around his eyes is light green lol

[–] AlJones@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Mark Zuckerberg is one of the worst humans alive. Right below Trump, Netanyahu, and Elon. They all gotta go.

[–] Juan_de_Silentio@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Great list! I'd add Bezos as well for my top 5.

[–] eleefece@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can we make it a top 10? I propose Martin Shkrelly, Sam Altman and Peter Thiel for 6,7 and 8th spots

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Don't forget Mark Andreesen, Vance, and every single successor to the Presidency under Trump.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 4 points 4 days ago

Don't forget the Ellisons.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 7 points 4 days ago

Did Putin die? Otherwise it's difficult to understand why he's not in that list.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

“So like Chris [Cox, Meta’s chief product officer] and I have been talking about, ‘all right, well, can we build 50 new apps? Like, yeah, probably,” Zuckerberg is quoted to have said in the article. “But we probably should start by doing a few before we just, like, ramp up trying to do 50 all at once.”

Motherfucker intends to flood the app market with slop-at-scale. The fuck kinda 50 apps would you even come up with?

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)
  1. App that shows you AI slop that looks like reddit
  2. App that shows you AI slop that looks like amazon
  3. App that shows you AI slop that looks like google
  4. App that shows you AI slop that looks like twitter
  5. App that shows you AI slop that looks like yahoo ....
[–] KingKong33@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 days ago

Fuckerberg is just an unoriginal, soulless husk, ain't he?

[–] Casterial@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Has meta ever invented anything? I always thought it was ironic he called out apple for iPhone and then doing nothing, but all they've successfully created was Facebook, they bought everything else and illegally sold our data to get rich

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

...and communities you care about

from meta? not a snowball's chance in zuckerberg hell.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 6 points 4 days ago

Let them fight. It’ll be entertaining. If we’re incredibly lucky (we won’t be incredibly lucky) they’ll find a way to bankrupt each other.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

lol only 20 years too late.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

Lemme guess, there won't be any "sort by" and instead the AI will give us post that the clank think we want?

"Perhaps to spice things up a bit, this time around, Meta is also including a dedicated AI assistant in the app."

Yo dawg! I love a little spice on my reddit clone jus like I like a little shimma shimma shine on my fake vomit.

[–] Darthcapi@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

Zuck is taking tanning tips from trump. In no time his eyes will look like bleached assholes too

[–] 843563115848@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

And Reddit looks a lot like all those dialup BBS s that we used to have back in the 80s or 90s, can't remember. Before the web. Someone would post an article or maybe a picture, others would comment on it. It's all the same shit, same basic format, even here. Only the quality of people is different.

[–] itsapollo@lemmy.world -3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It would be fantastic if the app could join the Fediverse community, similar to Lemmy!

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Meta actually did the same with mastodon, a lot instances blocked them before federation was turned on. People who use Lemmy are not likely to be up for a tech bro to be federating with them.

That said I'm sure you'll be able to find and join an instance that would do it if you want it.

[–] itsapollo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Sure, I totally agree with this....

People who use Lemmy are not likely to be up for a tech bro to be federating with them.

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 7 points 4 days ago

It would be horrible and kill this place. Meta does not do any sensible moderation on its platforms. There are nazis on there. All those MAGA propagandists. Scammers. Trolls. Meta is doing nothing against that.

A "meta lemmy instance" integrating Facebook groups would be too big for other instances to block. Which would bring all those users you really don't want to be here into our forum with no moderation. It would also send all your posts and user data from here to Meta.

[–] magnue@lemmy.world -3 points 4 days ago

I refuse to believe anyone actually uses the word 'fantastic' unironically.