I don't think the type of people who were repulsed by Elon's acquisition of Twitter were by any means the sort of people who would find refuge on Threads. These people all already have Facebook accounts in addition to their LinkedIn accounts and know how much of a black hole that place is.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'll be honest, I don't know why those people flocked to bluesky. @jack should not have anything like a positive reputation.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 15 points 12 hours ago

Bluesky got coverage on morning talkshows and stuff.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

find refuge on Threads.

I mean Threads has been shit from the very beginning and it's never gotten better even though Zuck had every advantage. It's like when Myspace could have become a social media juggernaut but it went into the toilet because it was entirely mismanaged and - oddly enough - that helped Facebook to quickly become a behemoth.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 19 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I just want some good open source stuff that's moderated by real humans, this shit isn't really that computationally intensive to run at moderate scale. All the tech bros are just so over leveraged on capturing every modicum of data on their users that it's bloated.

Basically anyone could run a decently sized forum on a consumer PC for their immediate area without issue, but someone has to keep AWS alive or the American economy collapses...

inshallah-script

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Imo the biggest issue with running one from home is security. It's quite complex.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago

Security is an absolute pain yeah, but it's also not like there's a great track record among the big companies anyways.

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