@mike while clearly not designed for my old Lenovo Duet Chromebook, the performance updates are a noticeable improvement

Great work @surf team!

@yuhasz01 @jcrabapple I personally like these benefits (it's why I'm here), but by the numbers if these things were important for the general public, Meta would not be the biggest social media company in the world.

They have consistently done everything against these goals for two decades, yet they are still the biggest player.

@yuhasz01 @jcrabapple

Let's go through them from a mass market P.O.V
- More privacy: they don't care
- Control over your account: they don't care
- Less creepy garbage in your feeds: they might care but depending on what you define as creepy and what you actually see in your feed (opposed to what other people see)
- Less ads or surveillance: they don't care
- better sharing and comms with people you care about: again maybe but people don't leave Instagram yet despite this.

@yuhasz01 @jcrabapple will it?

Curious of the specific benefits you propose that would persuade the general public to make the additional effort over other streamlined and centralised services?

@jcrabapple the fediverse keeps putting down this issue as trivial, but in the modern world it really isn't.

The email analogy doesn't line up when the expectation of modern social media is go to one website and sign up. Not to mention the choice of identify with the different servers.

This is one of the reasons why Bluesky works. Even if AT Protocol gets federated among multiple services, when you sign up for Bluesky, the hosting server is auto selected to them.

Nice to see a few people try and do the 365 photo challenge this year (h/t @CliffWade & @beardedtechguy )

Don't worry if you've missed a day, join in if you'd like through #365in25 or #365in2025.

For those on @surf, I created a custom feed via surf-social://feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jfpqenxqkj2y46enmyw0kngp

#Photography #PhotoChallenge