Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads
www.threads.net
Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol. Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people. I'm pretty optimistic about this.

I have my problems with Meta, but I’m hoping this will help Mastodon grow

  • LvxferreEnglish
    20•11 months ago

    The core of the software will be intact, but the community will be broken - because once Threads pulls the plug (EEE), instead of a stable community you’ll have a shrinking one.

    • @BuddahrifficEnglish
      11•11 months ago

      Or from another angle, they won’t be able to entirely pull the plug. If they try to but users still want to be on mastodon, they can find another way.

      That said, I support the immediate defederation with any threads instances.

      • LvxferreEnglish
        13•11 months ago

        They can pull it - most users in Threads will be interacting with other Threads users and content. Mastodon will be simply “that ideologically weird corner”, and in practice they won’t miss it.

        For scale: Threads currently has 100M users. The Fediverse as a whole has 1.5M.

        • @BuddahrifficEnglish
          6•11 months ago

          And I think that will go both ways. I mean, we all already have the option of joining threads right now to interact with those 100M users but I have a feeling most that are here aren’t.

          Their joining the fediverse will be more disruptive than their leaving it I think. And that’s not even considering the higher costs to anyone running instances, since all that extra volume won’t be processed and stored for free (though admittedly I am not familiar with the implementation details of how federated content is handled).

          • LvxferreEnglish
            5•11 months ago

            Their joining the fediverse will be more disruptive than their leaving it I think

            Eternal September-like? It’s possible.

          • LvxferreEnglish
            3•11 months ago

            I’m counting only monthly active users, for both sides. FediDB lists 1.2M for the Fediverse, your link lists 1.7M of them.