“For #Threads to survive, it needs to do this thing I want” — the people #Meta least cares about catering to.

Meta wants Threads to be a mostly vapid, positive, advertising friendly place and will absolutely sacrifice good content to get there. And they are probably right from a business sense.

Which is why I’ll go blue in the face trying to convince people who don’t like Threads or Twitter to use Mastodon. A for-profit free-for-all space will always cater to the most and most profitable.

This has basically been confirmed by Mosseri.

Having a site that is heavy on news and politics is counterproductive to making money off advertising.

Mastodon.

@jacobschumer They're "not interested in politics" but of course they're delighted to welcome LibsOfTikTok, et al. to their "non-political" platform. And people (even people here on Mastodon) clutch their pearls when some of us don't want to federate with their fucking bullshit.