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They better hurry up if they want to be relevant. Time to ship garbage!
by klysm 3y ago
They better hurry up if they want to be relevant. Time to ship garbage!
- silisili 3y agoToo late IMO. Twitter the incumbent, Threads just popped up out of nowhere with a whole heap of users. People switch when other people switch, generally. Those tired of Twitter now have an easy place to call home, there's not going to be any momentum to then want to switch again. Mastodon tried, and did get some following, but IMO is too complicated in concept for the common user. Bsky on the other hand just blew it.
- tapoxi 3y agoThreads is federating with Mastodon, which is good for both of them.
- alasarmas 3y agoFederation will end faster than you can say “The Gmail web client does not have an interface for joining chat rooms on other [Jabber] servers” [0] 0. https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12237/how-can-i-connect-to-a-jabber-chat-room-within-google-chat https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12237/how-can-i-...
- Hamuko 3y agoJust tried it, didn't work.
- a_bonobo 3y agoOne of the main open questions is how abuse will be handled. Mastodon is operated by volunteers with little extra time, in the worst case you handle abuse by just de-federating from an entire instance. Saves time for Mastodon mods. I don't think you can do that with Threads?
- honzabe 3y agoI will link to the article that changed my mind on this: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo... It was recently discussed here at HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36456233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36456233 TL;DR: it might be the 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish' strategy.
- klysm 3y agoI’ll be so amazed if they don’t chop that off very early. Embrace Extend Extinguish
- werid 3y agothreads is going to split communities if it takes off, given that EU is locked out of it.