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Will threads mainstream the fediverse?
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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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.