Within the first hour of threads going live, about a dozen of those im following on ig have joined (and began posting). When it’s fully federated, could this be the entry level platform the fediverse needs to push it into average use? I have a slight feeling it’ll be a BeReal type scenario where people use it for a few months and then move on, but id be stoked to be able to have my friends and family see my posts on mastodon/lemmy.
Keep in mind that right now, all of the big names posting are paid content. It’s probably not labeled as such, but they’re all on Meta’s payroll to make the platform attractive to new users. Will it take off? It actually has a decent chance. Not because of anything that they’re doing, but because of exactly how badly Twitter is fucking things up right now. People want out, and most couldn’t/wouldn’t/didn’t make the jump to Mastodon when everything with Musk started. This now looks like a viable alternative to them.
But no, I don’t want Facebook to destroy this beautiful new thing I just found.
Looks like bluesky is beating threads at getting the twitter crowd over, threads might be more of a draw for instagram users. In any case, both are bad news for mastodon if people dont even consider it as an alternative between those two.
I suppose that depends on what you consider “good” for Mastodon. I wouldn’t consider growth simply for the sake of growth to be a good thing. That’s stage 1 of enshittification. It also means a shitload of awful people joining, tons of mod work, etc.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for Mastodon and the fediverse becoming more accessible. I just think the growth needs to be for the right reasons.
Agreed, to a point. I do like the smaller communities but on the other hand I also want mastodon to be a larger blip on the overall perception so we get first-hand content creators instead of having to resort to bots copying over tweets since none of the original people want to bother with it.
Threads will mainstream threads.
Any good content here will be available to the Threads users, who will be oblivious to where it is coming from.
Eventually, Meta will take steps to break compatability, and lots of the most prolific contributors from here will move to Threads exclusively (for a host of valid reasons).
When it is no longer in Meta interest to federate, they will stop.
The fediverse will continue, but it will be weakened by it’s temporary reliance on Threads (who could afford to host large images/videos/etc, have lower latency, etc etc).
That's why I hope most instances defederate at the get go and totally ignore Meta.. A large corporation will bring nothing but destruction when it comes down to it.
Which is precisely why the Fediverse needs to shove a Fedidick straight into Borgboy’s nasal cavity immediately.
Fuck Meta, fuck anyone that joins their fucking app, fuck the people that made the app, fuck everyone else that works there and perpetrates this massive fuckoff stain on humanity, fuck Zucc specifically, fuck billionaires generally, fuck yo’ couch, and fuck this post.
Three hours since official launch and top personalities have already amassed 100K+ followers. Not sure what the official headcount is on Mastodon these days but those counts already surpass the total number of users on Lemmy.
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