There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.

  • slicedcheesegremlin@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I would agree if they didn’t already shovel in 10 million people from instagram in the past few hours, and you cant leave without deleting your facebook and instagram accounts and everything you have invested in them. They gained in the past few hours more people than the entire Fediverse has gained over the course of several years.

    • Eggyhead@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I think most people are here because we don’t really like groups like Meta. We existed before, and I believe we can persist without. Meta is going to have Facebook/instagram/whatsapp integration in threads that will require us to visit their site and/or link accounts to view. I think we might as well just defederate at that point.

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      1 year ago

      But they took them from Instagram. As somebody on another forum said, because it sort of came with Instagram, they didn’t sign up to Meta out of the blue. People not on Instagram will likely not sign up for it, at least not in those numbers.