Unfortunately, Mastodon’s lack of features makes it hard for normies to use and it will not see mainstream adoption. I hope normies get a decent Twitter replacement.
I have absolutely no intention of using Threads (for obvious reasons: meta data collection), but I’m interested to see if it can push the fediverse into mainstream conversation. I basically only used twitter for sports news so if those reporters end up on Threads and I can follow them from Mastodon I wouldn’t mind. Of course none of that matters if it’s not on ActivityPub like it’s rumored to be, or if they implement any kind of restrictions to users not on their instance, like following users or liking posts.
You don’t want Meta pushing Mastodon into the mainstream. That will mean most Mastodon users are on Meta’s instance and then they’ll just follow the playbook to kill Mastodon as an open source project by embracing it, extending it, and then extinguishing it.
There’s no need for a “Twitter killer” Twitter is already dying. And the last thing anyone should think is a good idea is thinking something made by meta is a good idea to switch too.
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As much as I hate Meta, nothing is worse than Twitter under Musk. I’m hoping it does kill twitter… Doesn’t take much to end twitter right now tbh.
Unfortunately, Mastodon’s lack of features makes it hard for normies to use and it will not see mainstream adoption. I hope normies get a decent Twitter replacement.
I have absolutely no intention of using Threads (for obvious reasons: meta data collection), but I’m interested to see if it can push the fediverse into mainstream conversation. I basically only used twitter for sports news so if those reporters end up on Threads and I can follow them from Mastodon I wouldn’t mind. Of course none of that matters if it’s not on ActivityPub like it’s rumored to be, or if they implement any kind of restrictions to users not on their instance, like following users or liking posts.
You don’t want Meta pushing Mastodon into the mainstream. That will mean most Mastodon users are on Meta’s instance and then they’ll just follow the playbook to kill Mastodon as an open source project by embracing it, extending it, and then extinguishing it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
There’s no need for a “Twitter killer” Twitter is already dying. And the last thing anyone should think is a good idea is thinking something made by meta is a good idea to switch too.