They have a lot of users, but do they have a lot of interesting people? Being from Europe threads is not a thing for me, but my “SoMe network” is pretty solid o

They have a lot of users, but do they have a lot of interesting people? Being from Europe threads is not a thing for me, but my “SoMe network” is pretty solid on Mastodon. Most of the people I want to read “tweets” from left Twitter sometime last year, well, many are now both on Twitter and Mastodon. Anyway, despite its tiny user bass compared to Twitter, almost every single person or organisation that I followed on Twitter is on Mastodon, and while that’s anecdotal, I do think that the users Meta cares about aren’t necessarily those 70 million. I suspect it’s a tough balancing act. One where you need the interesting accounts as well as the masses, because you can’t have the masses without interesting things and you can’t have advertisement revenue without the masses. I don’t actually think Threads has too much to worry about from Mastodon. Personally I think something “better” is needed before we get any real Twitter replacement, but I can see why Meta would want to keep the door open. So that if they can’t get the “interesting” accounts to join, they can still get the content from those accounts by linking up to Mastodon. Well, that or maybe Meta is actually gearing up to become the SoMe that doesn’t lock its platforms down. The EU is likely not going to stop by forcing messaging apps to speak with each other after all, and there is obviously a lot of value in being the “phone book” of the world.