That is a luxury that should be severely limited. I hate screaming children on flights, but I don't want us to all start chartering private jets, even if somehow becomes affordable.

Yes, because Lemmy is still at that early phase of its existence where half of the posts complain about reddit, Threads, Twitter, etc, and that's just not something I'm interested in. Waiting for it all to die down a little.

It's alright, you don't have to announce it.

I really think they are not, those are all account from people who have actively signed up. Threads really is that much bigger than Mastodon, and it's not that surprising.

I can write a Mastodon scraper in a few minutes, make it scalable in a few days. Definitely easier than implementing ActivityPub in an app.

They can scrape that data withiut federating. Anyone can, there's a public API. And I suspect once they federate Threads, Mastodon will be a tiny share of the resulting fediverse.

No to say they won't ingest all that data, of course, they'll get their hands on everything they can, but I doubt it's the primary motivation behind it.

I did a short stint as a video editor at a local news channel. Had one colleague who made it a point to lean back and touch the keyboard as little as humanly possible, and use the mouse for everything. It was excruciating to watch him work. He was fairly experienced btw, so I'm sure he could have done the work much quicker, he just chose not to.