I think defederating Threads is a huge missed opportunity for Mastodon to grow.
Imagine interacting with their users and letting them know that: you scroll posts without ads, your timeline is in chronological order, your client doesn’t spy on you, you only see what you want and no other content is pushed to your timeline, etc…
if I was a Threads users, I would move to Mastodon as soon as I find out 🙂
@andreagrandi That's fine and dandy until Meta does the inevitable and creates a walled garden of trusted communities and defederates from all else, no?
Meta has zero financial nor cultural motive to embrace the Fediverse as we understand it other than extinguish it. This is why they are linking your Threads account to Instagram and requiring that you delete Instagram in order to delete your Threads account. And they still are trying to sell us on the idea that their accounts are "portable?"
Probably a good enough excuse as any to delete IG. Our images are about to be scraped up to feed AI anyway.
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