Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

  • @august_senpai@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    IMHO this is 100% the plan. If they play their cards right they stand to take out two birds with one stone (heh). They’ve already paid celebrities to be on there.

    Still, this can only happen if Threads gets massive enough relative to the rest of the fediverse that the incompatibility doesn’t hurt them equally.
    …that is to say, it’s all pretty likely, unless other strong competitors show up with ActivityPub support.

      • Reclipse
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        191 year ago

        Exactly, They don’t give a shit about Fediverse.

        • @Vlyn@lemmy.ml
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          91 year ago

          Marketing and content boost for the start maybe? Mastodon has come up a lot recently (hell, even in local radio), so Meta can use this to promote their own product. And already have content right there for users joining Threads, it’s not a blank slate.

          After the initial boost and when sucking up millions of users they can just defederate and have their Facebook (or rather Twitter) 2.0.

    • RxBrad
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      161 year ago

      They’re already over 2 million in like 2 hours.