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Meta Launches Threads, And It’s Important For Reasons That Most People Won’t Care About by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

As you may have heard, yesterday Meta finally launched Threads, its Twitter-like microblogging service, built on ActivityPub, but using Instagram account credentials for login. The reaction from across the internet has been fascinating. I’ve seen everything from people insisting that this will clearly finally be the one single “Twitter killer” everyone’s been waiting for, to […]

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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

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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.