I’m all for companies participating in open source communities… but this is the company that routinely blocks me from viewing my aunt’s reposts of Russian state sponsored racist propeganda just because I don’t install the incredibly invasive mobile app.

I can imagine a few ways that this could go wrong…

I’m very curious how this will all shake out. I can understand all of you who want to block Threads and the only two instances that I am on myself are going to do exactly that, but it seems tremendously likely that the flagship instance of the fediverse, mastodon.social, will federate and it will have a massive impact on not just the culture, but also on the codebase. For example I wonder what services will go for feature parity and add features like voice notes which Threads added recently. Oh and culture-wise, with POTUS joining Threads, big institutions like the White House will suddenly appear on the fediverse.

Still holding out hope that a bunch of new users and new ideas will rejuvenate the fediverse, in any case 2024 should be a big year for it.

I look forward to the additional people Threads could bring here. Once the conversations are both directions I think many people will migrate to this side to avoid ads and Meta.

Oh, fuck. He’s optimistic

I’m not against Threads joining fedi. That’s where most of the Arabic content is and it is nice that it will be easier to share.