“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.
But to me the "sell" that everyone is missing (because, you know, Masto hates capitalism or whatever)
"Hey companies. You know how you can OWN your own website and email? What if you could do that for 'twitter' and not worry about all that blue check stupidity? Avoid that Eli Lilly situation? Come to mastodon!"
I think that's an oversimplification? At the risk of whatever, I am hoping Mastodon (the present people in it) grow smarter about the difference between "commerce" and "Capitalism?"
Companies are around and they do stuff and having a connection to them, like a website or email, but in a twitter like way should be a win-win if done properly
Jacob Schumer
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