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  • carbotect@vlemmy.nettoFediverse@lemmy.worldWhat should we do about Threads?
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    1 year ago

    I am pro-fediverse, so I guess making Mastodon atleast as easy to use as Threads is a must.

    If you look at statistics, Mastodon always gains a massive amount of users, when Twitter does something stupid. Most of these also return back to Twitter, the moment they realize, that Mastodon has no VIPs.

    If Threads integrates well with ActivityPub, then people on Mastodon will be more likely to stay, because Threads gives fediverse users access to the VIPs, that they used Twitter for in the first place. This stops people from leaving Mastodon in the short term.

    In the long term Mastodon needs to advertise itself to younger people, because nowadays this is the only way for new social media platforms to establish themselves.

    That’s how TikTok, SnapChat and Instagram became popular. This would make Mastodon fresh, while Twitter would transform into a graveyard like facebook.

    Also having more tech companies, media orgs, cultural orgs, universities and maybe even governments host their instances, would make the federated aspect stronger and the whole fediverse more scalable.



  • Mastodon is a bubble. You have primarily highly educated, tech-literate nerds on that platform.

    Obviously people are more civil and polite there, than some raging uneducated losers and trolls on facebook.

    As the fediverse grows, the userbase will obviously lose this current isolated tech-wizard school vibe, and feel more like going into a random pub in a big city. Regardless if Meta joins the fediverse or not.


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    Threads is a Twitter competitor. Same applies to Mastodon.

    Twitter is only useful because companies, celebrities amd politicians embrace it. Nobody cares about ordinary Twitter users. Twitter is a platform for networking with people in the industry and announcing stuff to customers.

    Mastodon right now is not an alternative to Twitter, because there is practically nobody important there.

    Threads has better chances to overcome this and has already in a few hours pulled more VIPs onto their platform, than Mastodon in multiple years.





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    As the fediverse grows, there will inevitably be more centralized instances. Every big tech corp may want to start their own instance, similar to how most tech corps provide their own mail services.

    There are millions of email service providers, but Gmail and Outlook are synonymous to email for a large amount of people.

    Defederating with Meta and Tumblr is like Protonmail blocking every mail from Gmail. You just cripple yourself and make your instance useless.



  • When I used Facebook a few years ago, my feed was mostly memes, ads and personal posts from friends and family.

    Maybe I never got the ragebait political stuff, because everyone in my friend circle wasn’t keen on being the sad guy that publicly yells at clouds on facebook.

    Popular hashtags on Twitter and to some extend even on Mastodon, just makes you feel bad for the mental health of these perma-raging users tho.

    Political spaces in general on every social platform are just magnets for misery.