Post 2116053 by BlueCoffeeMug@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #2114666 by jerry@infosec.exchange
2018-12-19T22:26:57Z
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Has the recent Facebook dumpster fire driven any big crowds to the fediverse?
(DIR) Post #2114698 by thegibson@hackers.town
2018-12-19T22:28:15Z
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@jerry Not that I've seen... gates are closed...at some point that goose will stop laying golden eggs... it will eventually become Myspace.
(DIR) Post #2114774 by jerry@infosec.exchange
2018-12-19T22:30:46Z
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@TheGibson I wonder how long they could get by just from selling data they already have...
(DIR) Post #2114782 by InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space
2018-12-19T22:30:52Z
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@jerry We need a better Facebook-style fediverse alternative before that happens, I think.
(DIR) Post #2114795 by m4iler@infosec.exchange
2018-12-19T22:31:22Z
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@TheGibson @jerry Talking about facebook now or fedi?I believe we need to teach users in any way, shape or form.I will do my part by offering free XMPP setups for people.
(DIR) Post #2114854 by bootblackCub@lgbt.io
2018-12-19T22:33:45Z
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@jerry not that I have picked up on. It seems really hard to shift people away from fb than it is from places like twitter
(DIR) Post #2114866 by thegibson@hackers.town
2018-12-19T22:31:44Z
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@jerry The data does turn sour with age... but I'm sure it is mine-able for several years.
(DIR) Post #2114885 by Photocrimes@freeradical.zone
2018-12-19T22:32:42Z
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@TheGibsonIt's already on the way there. Kids don't even use it now. They have lost something like 60% of the under 25 market in the UK. That's the beginning of the end. My kid, 14, just said the other day "Dad, nobody uses Facebook. It's for old people"Stick a nail in it when the younger generation starts saying things like that.@jerry
(DIR) Post #2114924 by jerry@infosec.exchange
2018-12-19T22:36:59Z
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@Photocrimes @TheGibson the good news, in the short term, is that the older generation that stick with them are the ones that have disposable income that everyone wants to get at. Millennials are probably wrecking the data brokerage business model, too.
(DIR) Post #2114942 by thegibson@hackers.town
2018-12-19T22:33:50Z
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@Photocrimes @jerry Yeah, my kids feel the same way about it.They are starting to ask me about setting up a mastodon instance for them and their friends though... which i
(DIR) Post #2114980 by pybyte@octodon.social
2018-12-19T22:37:50Z
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@TheGibson @jerry MySpace never got anywhere near the size and influence Facebook has today. If FB goes down, it won't be like MySpace's late 2000's slide into obscurity.
(DIR) Post #2115157 by maryjane@social.coletivos.org
2018-12-19T22:46:53Z
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@jerry Think most "big waves" of users from other networks to the fediverse happened due to changes in those networks rules. Mastodon first big wave was due to a change in Twitter. Then the Switter scenario with fosta, now thumblr with the ban of porn. Not because users were reallizing how bad their data is treated
(DIR) Post #2115218 by thegibson@hackers.town
2018-12-19T22:49:09Z
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@pybyte @jerry sure, I am just living to see the day they are reduced to it.
(DIR) Post #2115234 by jerry@infosec.exchange
2018-12-19T22:50:10Z
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@maryjane@social.coletivos.org fair enough.
(DIR) Post #2115447 by jeff@infosec.exchange
2018-12-19T22:58:39Z
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@TheGibson @pybyte @jerry Facebook doesn’t die without government regulation. The vast majority of the 2billion users don’t care about the stuff everyone here cares about.
(DIR) Post #2116053 by BlueCoffeeMug@mastodon.social
2018-12-19T23:24:52Z
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@jerry i left last year.
(DIR) Post #2116092 by BlueCoffeeMug@mastodon.social
2018-12-19T23:27:11Z
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@maryjane @jerry that's a good point but very sad at the same time
(DIR) Post #2116348 by desikn@mastodon.social
2018-12-19T23:38:08Z
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@jerry Facebook doesn't have anything to worry about. Facebook is still growing and if they leave Facebook they jump to Instagram which is still Facebook. Besides they have Messenger and WhatsApp that is unaffected and also still growing.
(DIR) Post #2117471 by flugennock@mastodon.social
2018-12-20T00:30:58Z
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@jerry Couldn't tell you, but I'm doing my part; whenever I get the chance on Twitter, I post links to Mastodon and switching.social whenever there's a Facebook "flare-up".
(DIR) Post #2122712 by adam@hax0rbana.social
2018-12-20T04:18:53Z
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@jerry For those of us not on Facebook, what's going on? Is this about the removal of the API access to [intentionally] break apps?
(DIR) Post #2129710 by lightone@mastodon.xyz
2018-12-20T11:33:49Z
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@jerry There's a steady trickle of both new servers and new registrations: https://the-federation.info / https://fediverse.network
(DIR) Post #2136797 by WanderingTaoist@mastodon.social
2018-12-20T16:54:03Z
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@jerry my Diaspora is still pretty much of a wasteland