GunnarRunnar

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yeah, can you believe they work for money?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I'm pretty fucking sure they all know the basics of dialogue, no need to insult them. They are just working with impossible constraints when it comes to rewrites and such. Those creative decisions that are based on the whims of executives and audience testing. There's no love in the writing because there's no time to fall in love. These changes need to be happen on the top first.

And if you think ai writing will fix that... Whoo boy give it a couple of years and that snake will eat itself, especially if there's legal recognition that you can't use material without the creator's permission (which should happen).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Sure doesn't feel like one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (14 children)

You mean that it was the writers that pushed comic book movies and not the executives?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I think everyone in the ActivityPub hopes Mastodon is the next Twitter but other than that, it's a tie between the all three. I think Bluesky has the best chance since it has the cleanest plate but it'll absolute turn into a shit hole like the rest.

Cohost would be cool.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I wonder if after this Silicon Valley realizes that there's no infinite growth/money/potential and stops trying to position shit as such. Just make a product that holds up and doesn't fold like a house of cards when it finally is being monetized.

Edit: And as a totally separate point, think about the mods! Loads of more work and zero pay while spammers "get rich".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Definitely. And I don't think this article is "right" or does predict future (because it can change in a drop of a hat) but with all these doom and gloom comments about Meta/Facebook ruining ActivityPub I enjoy hearing about opposing (and valid imo) views.

But like I commented somewhere else, there is something here that Mastodon and ActivityPub can gain here. Threads is already big (10M users or something) compared to Mastodon (2M users or something). My biggest fear was that Threads was going leech users off of ActivityPub but looking how things are, there's a chance it would go the other way with Mastodon gaining users. And you're absolutely correct that Meta won't play nice but I don't really see how they'd be able to stop the growth Mastodon would've potentially already gotten. But what do I know.

[–] [email protected] 223 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No surprise there. Weren't they banning people for posting their Mastodon/Cohost accounts or something?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And the fact is Threads has what, 10M users already? And Mastodon has like 2M? They're already a success and leeching the 2M off of Mastodon isn't a big success for them.

My fear was that Threads was going to steal users into their ecosystem but if there's going to be federation, right now it looks to me like Mastodon actually stands to benefit more than Threads from it (not taking into account EU regulatory systems).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please breakdown your comment because I don't get what you're getting at.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This opinion piece is incredible well written in my opinion and touches on defederation more broadly. Relevant stuff.

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