This is a moment when I'd love to use the "you love to see it" meme comment, but it's more like... "People are fleeing the burning building, and running across the street to an identical building that is infested with rats and cockroaches!"

Cool, fleeing one megacorp run by a huge tool for another megacorp run by a huge tool

Don't think that meta turning into even more of a global social megacorp that controls everything a lot of people seee and interact with day to day is a good thing tbh.

Threads has not yet launched in Europe due to regulatory issues

LOL no, there are no "regulatory issues". Meta itself expects Threads to be illegal in the EU. Which is probably correct. And they do not seem to be having a problem with it. Which is fine by me.

I am willing to be corrected, but from what I understand from my online friend (who is Indian (living in the region) and reports on tech with a focus on India, Asia and Southeast Asia), a lot of Threads’ early adoption is entrenchment. For instance, most of India’s IG users migrated to Threads, and that was part of the initial 10 million.

I just don’t think that we can look at Threads’ adoption rates in the same way as, say, we look at Mastodon or even early Twitter. Threads is built upon an existing base: Instagram. Meta even pre-made your Threads account if you have IG. I mean, technically I have a Threads account, sitting there, in the shadows. I also have an Excite account. And I dug up my MySpace account in a fit of pique (and then remembered why I left MySpace all those years ago). But having something and using something are different.

That not to say that Threads isn’t going to end up as Meta’s “revenge” just that the adoption is not necessarily because Threads is better, but that the entire social media monetization culture is pre-built through Instagram; and there not only is no barrier to entry, but you can stumble into the Threads “garden” with ease. It’s basically the same model Microsoft used to bootstrap Windows using the pre-installed DOS base. And it will succeed because the outreach mechanisms are already in place.

That doesn’t change my mind about choosing Mastodon. I have different online handles for different needs. I lost my original IG handle many years ago, so made one using my real name to lurk on IG; so my Threads handle will end up being my real name, and that’s a show stopper for using the platform. My real name social media are “honey pots” to keep nosey companies out of my hair and ways to keep an eye on my squirrelly remnants of a family. I have no desire to post anything on my real name Threads identity.

https://9to5google.com/2023/07/10/threads-readies-handy-explainer-of-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

When you limit replies, your thread will not be shared with your fediverse followers.

Private profiles will be able to follow an interact with people on other platforms at a later date.

Like clockwork

I tried out Threads just to see what the fuss was about. It's mostly just annoying celebrities.

Maybe those are mostly Instagram accounts?

https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/110693385561252959 Elon really made some metric up to claim twitter is healthy

Is this considered masochism? This seems like masochism.

Now if only my feed can only show the accounts I'm actually following

@trashhalo Nice, they can remove their API limits again? hahahha. Just kidding, Twitter is ded anyway. Just like Reddit.