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  • @ZakEnglish
    1•5 months ago

    I’m not sure what Meta’s goal is with adding federation to Threads. Some options include:

    • Preempting government scrutiny for monopolistic practices
    • Gaining a competitive advantage against Xitter/Bluesky/etc…
    • Giving Threads users access to more people/content

    As for why I think the flow of users is likely to be away from Threads:

    • People who already actively use Mastodon and the like tend to be fairly technically sophisticated and anti-corporate. Not many of those will switch to a Meta product when they can reach the same audience without it.
    • Most people who joined Threads got there via Instagram. Those sorts of mainstream users mostly haven’t been exposed to decentralized, non-corporate social media. The added exposure of seeing it from Threads is more marketing than these open source projects could ever hope to buy.