So it begins.

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      I’m sure it will come to the EU eventually. Probably sooner rather than later.

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      Only in the app stores, once you grab the apk in android it works also in EU.

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        The majority of people will not look into doing that. A lot of people asked me if I had a Samsung or Apple charger. For them, Samsung did its own thing like Apple. They didn’t know Samsung was Android

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          Sure just saying that to underline that per se the EU is not blocked.

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    Sly way for the article to be titled. It’s almost as if they’re trying to mask Meta/Facebook being the owner of it.

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      Absolutely. They know that Facebook is uncool and unpopular. The Instagram branding still has some capital with the yutes.

      Edit: I don’t mean to say that The Verge is doing this intentionally (maybe, I don’t know), but Meta certainly is.

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    Yeah. Bring my 10 foot pole to beat it down with. I’m not touching that bare handed.

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    watches from Mastodon as the cool kids from Twitter switch to being the cool kids on Threads, goes back to reading the always interesting/fascinating/weird federated timeline

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    Tried it and the timeline was a hell. It worse than Twitter’s recommendation tab. At least Twitter’s recommendation tab is filled with people with same interest like you, but Thread’s timeline filled with people I don’t know and not even have same interest with me.

    I only follow Japanese account, yet the timeline filled with people speaking language other than Japanese.

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      I pay a small sum per month to the Mastodon admin that runs my instance. If it chooses to federate with Threads, I’ll consider moving to another instance that doesn’t. Facebook is a toxic company and shouldn’t be treated any differently than a toxic Lemmy instance.

      Such is the beauty of decentralization! 🎉

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        This is my favorite part of the fediverse, because someone on the opposite side could be very excited to finally interact with their more mainstream social circles. I dig it.

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        Yep. I’m going to watch who federates and who doesn’t. Not staying on there if they do.