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The future is interoperability: Why Threads could beat Twitter through the Fediverse

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Hanna Kahlert
While Elon Musk has been posturing public beef with Mark Zuckerberg (challenging him to a cage match, practicing with former MMA champions, public callouts on Twitter, requesting very personal measurements), Zuckerberg has responded in a more traditional way (aside from his own training pictures) with the launch of Threads, Twitter’s biggest competitor to-date.
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The future lies beyond tech – a long(er) read

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Hanna Kahlert
As entertainment companies start planning their next big steps for the coming year, the success and failure of their strategic decisions will hinge on one big, and perhaps surprising, existential question : is this it for the tech industry? Planning for 2023 seems to mean planning for disruption, and this is no easy thing to do – especially given the changes already wrought by the last three years of predominately virtual working.
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Is Mastodon the beginning of the social platform revolution?

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Hanna Kahlert
Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter last week has raised serious questions about the future of the app, and about the future of social platforms overall . As the likes of TikTok move social into the category of content, and new, use-specific social platforms begin to take off, it seems that not only is now the time for social platform disruption – it is already happening.
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