I wonder if Mastodon is to Meta what Firefox is to Google.
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I wonder if Mastodon is to Meta what Firefox is to Google.
A little thing for a big company to gesture towards whenever a regulator starts mumbling something about monopolies.
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Robert W. Gehlreplied to Robert W. Gehl last edited by [email protected]
If that's the case, then I would hope the sad path Mozilla took won't be trod by Mastodon (the organization)
edited to fix typo: also, it's clear I need glasses
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Robert W. Gehl last edited by
@rwg definitely getting those vibes.
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Taggart :donor:replied to Robert W. Gehl last edited by
@rwg Threads is for sure using Fedi in part of an anti-regulatory strategy, especially in the EU.
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Robert W. Gehlreplied to Taggart :donor: last edited by [email protected]
@mttaggart that was my initial take -- Threads adopted ActivityPub to comply with EU data portability regulations.
But now I'm thinking Mastodon itself serves as a foil. "Look! There's competition!"
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Elena Rossini ⁂replied to Robert W. Gehl last edited by
@rwg @mttaggart I think it's 10% this and 90% having access (and mining) users' messages in order to train their LLM Llama. Think about it: Facebook is totally passé, IG is their most popular product but all image-based. The wealth of information and sentiment analyses they can gather from Threads is astounding
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Taggart :donor:replied to Elena Rossini ⁂ last edited by
@[email protected] @rwg It's possible, although the scale of Fedi makes me think those numbers may in fact be reversed. All of non-Threads Fedi is _maybe 15 million users. Threads is already an order of magnitude larger, so the training data is already available without inviting litigation regarding consent.
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Elena Rossini ⁂replied to Taggart :donor: last edited by
@mttaggart yes sorry I agree and I didn't mean to conflate the two things.
My gut feeling is that having a text-based network with 200 million active users is a goldmine for training Llama (real objective).
Throwing in Fediverse support was to appease European regulators.
My two cents.
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Robert W. Gehlreplied to Elena Rossini ⁂ last edited by
yes to both.
As a side effect, Threads has caused a massive rift on the fediverse, with some folks (including me) signing the #fedipact, and others arguing against it.
All that consternation because of a company that fundamentally does not give two shits about the fediverse.
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Elena Rossini ⁂replied to Robert W. Gehl last edited by
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Robert W. Gehlreplied to Elena Rossini ⁂ last edited by
@_elena @mttaggart https://fedipact.online/ is the list.