Jason KottkeJul 6, 2023

In the mid-2000s, the blogosphere was vibrant, open, and had massive potential but lacked discoverability, easy networking, and ease of use. Facebook came along, supplied those things, privatized a huge chunk of that potential, and in just a few years, more or less *became* the blogosphere.

Today, the fediverse is vibrant, open, and has massive potential but lacks discoverability, easy networking, and ease of use. With Threads, can FB pull the same trick? I wouldn't bet against them trying.

Show threadv9yJul 6, 2023
@jkottke I think discoverability is not as big an issue right now as it was in the blogosphere. And Threads currently is really poor at it too. To your 'ease of use' point, I haven't seen anything in Threads so far that distinguishes it from Twitter or Mastodon or even BlueSky, except that it promises a fediverse interoperability. It's pretty minimal feature-wise. It doesn't have a web interface. It'd be interesting to see how they do the interoperability part.
Show threadMonika ViktorovaJul 6, 2023
@v9y @jkottke It’s not really about the features, although sign up is way easier than on mastodon- it’s literally one-click if you have an insta account. It’s about the users - always has been. If #threads pulls in government, journalists, media corps, celebrities - which it looks like it will- people will preferentially use it.
Show threadTashaJul 6, 2023

@mviktoro @v9y @jkottke

Exactly - if Threads pull in government and journalist and media corp it will capture a lion share of the peeps BUT #FuckTheZuck governments has NO business being on a corp proprietary platform without HUGE regulations upon that platform

Show threadMonika ViktorovaJul 6, 2023
@TashaKostolany @v9y @jkottke Agreed, but governments were already on Twitter 🤷‍♀️
Show threadTasha

@mviktoro @v9y @jkottke

Agree but they shouldn’t be *

Jul 6, 2023 at 8:43pmWeb