> And it still didn't take off the way Threads did. > Isn't the whole point of Mastodon supposed to be a privacy advocating and decentralised alternative to Tw

> And it still didn't take off the way Threads did. > Isn't the whole point of Mastodon supposed to be a privacy advocating and decentralised alternative to Twitter? Yes. Whereas Threads is privacy destroying and centralized. > Threads's launch is just going to centralise Mastodon to the biggest servers How so? > and onto Threads itself How so? To be sure, if and when Threads supports ActivityPub (it launched without such support), it will immediately become the biggest ActivityPub server in the world. On the other hand, many Mastodon instances are vowing to immediately defederate from Threads, and other Mastodon instances may be forced to defederate because of spam and/or traffic. So it's not clear how long that Threads will even last among the ActivityPub community at large. On the other hand, it's unclear whether Instagram/Threads users are even interested in communicating with Mastodon users, and vice versa, so maybe they'll coexist on the ActivityPub protocol while largely ignoring each other. The fact that Threads shipped without ActivityPub support shows that ActivityPub is not essential to Meta's plans. (That feels like a bit of a relief to me.)