Until you realize Threads goal is to also take down the Fediverse :(
They have plan to adopt the same standard “in future”. That mean we have plenty of time to check the beast from afar. Not perfect but not an immediate “thread” either.
The problem right now is that ask a s***load of personal information to use the app and if later you want to leave, you can’t unless you erase your Instagram account too.
A tactic used by Microsoft and Google in the past:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
Basically they embrace an open standard , extend with proprietary nonsense and then extinguish it with sheer incompetency or greed.
I’m not giving a fuck to the Twitter x Threads fight I already feel great on Mastodon and don’t plan on switching again
I don’t care about Twitter or Threads either, I just love watching Musk have a meltdown
I have no idea why it wasn’t more obvious to me that Facebook would do this. It’s so obvious now that it is happening.
They have attacked every social network format to date. They’ll probably take down Reddit using ActivityPub afterwards, but for now, Twitter is the easiest target.
Honestly it is really smart how they went about this. From what I’ve read, they only started development on Threads at the start of this year. They acted very fast to create Threads. Then after the rate limiting bullshit this past week, they saw the perfect opportunity to release Threads early to capitalize on the current issues with Twitter. I work in tech and I am really impressed with what they’ve done so far from that perspective.
It isn’t that everything they’ve done is necessarily difficult; they just got it right it seems, which these days seems to be rare from tech companies (including Meta and their Metaverse).
Meanwhile I read the feed and get stressed by people (un)consciously installing Threads cr-app on their primary devices w/ stock Android and iOS, despite them having a normal time with literally any other interface to Fediverse.
I hope they take each other down.
why
edit: tf is your problem I don’t know the context I don’t even know what that @ is supposed to mean
Is that the official threads logo? Damn, that thing is so ugly! Should be an official dictionary definition of overdesigned!
Thing is that Threads plans to be able to connect to the fediverse as a whole. So who knows what the future holds for Mastodon.
