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Very simply, the response about Threads from @Gargron is impossibly naive. It assumes good faith interactions with a company that routinely demonstrates, and often flaunts it’s lack of ethics. There is no universe in which Mastodon gets Threads content for free. Either they’re going to find a way to monetize Mastodons userbase or they’re not going to implement interoperability.

You don’t build a milk empire by letting everyone have free access to the cows.

—@GrayGooGirl

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Dan Hon (@danhon@dan.mastohon.com) (Mastohon)
Everyone* is going to be there, they did the work so the Brands were there on day one being all Brand-y, all the influencers and Creators are there, plus there are enough early 21st century mall cops around so the Nazis aren't *too* visible. It'll be packed and Elon is fucked. The amount of prep work Meta must've done to get all those blue checks lined up on day one, they know how to run their advertising businesses.
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Very disappointed in the #Uber presentation at #NFB23, where an employee of 10 years claimed in front of the entire convention that Uber has implemented #a11y into their development processes, while show stopping bugs still exist in the app like inability to cancel rides with VoiceOver. And access for guide dog users has only gotten worse in the past 10 years. We have no reason to trust #Uber. It is time to protest and demand our rights as blind people and guide dog users to ride without issues.

—@MikeForzano