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Mastodon's Founder & CEO Gives His Thoughts on Meta's Threads (blog.joinmastodon.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I'm not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Block the shit outta it. Hope no one signs up lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There's a 90% probability that Threads takes over from the failing Twitter. Nothing will change. No one will learn anything. More of everyone's data will be stollen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They had 10 million signups within 7 hours of launch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they say

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Anecdotally, through what I've seen of even just local Twitter accounts (like breweries, reporters, friends talking about Instagrammers they follow, etc), I think I believe them.