Facebook has tried to compete with Twitter in numerous ways over the years, including copying signature Twitter features such as hashtags and trending topics. But now Facebook’s parent company is taking perhaps its biggest swipe at Twitter yet.

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      People don’t care about principles when it comes to a social media site (or really anything for that matter). They want something easy to use, that everyone is on.

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        I’m almost certain there’s a first to market FOMO kinda thing happening with influencers/scammers/advertisers. Everyone with that disgusting “grindset” mentality on Instagram just got a blank slate on an entirely new platform with a lot of media attention.

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          Its happening with every new Twitter replacement. Twitter for all its faults was actually a widely used resource for brands, companies and influencers. Now that it is so erratic they’re all trying to jump on anything with a hint of success to replace Twitter.

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            Brands and government accounts are going to flock to Threads. They want a place for general announcements that has some consistency in moderation and stability. Musk has largely destroyed that on twitter.

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              I can see it for those types of accounts. The National Weather Service for example doesn’t want to deal with random tweet limits and pricing changes and all that. All they need is a stable platform that is popular. If Threads can give them that, I can see it taking off. Already it seems to have more hype and activity than any other alternative in the last few months.

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          I didn’t even think about the porn aspect. You’re probably right. Although I’m sure people are going to test it and see how close Meta will let them get.

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        I know I’m practically begging for downvotes here, but it is also possible that some people are perfectly aware of the tradeoffs, pros, and cons of social media, and have decided that the positives outweigh the negatives. That you have different priorities doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone else is stupid or ignorant.

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          It’s ironic how the Fediverse on the one hand celebrates the fact that anyone can join and instances can all do their own things and hold their own views, and then it goes “but not like that” in this case.

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            It’s ironic how the Fediverse on the one hand celebrates the fact that anyone can join and instances can all do their own things and hold their own views

            Yes, all in contrast to corporate enshittification and algorithmic spyware.

            and then it goes “but not like that” in this case.

            Yes, because its corporate social media waiting for enshittification with algorithmic spyware.

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              If some instance wants to enshittify itself it’s free to do so. The Fediverse makes it straightforward for its users to move to other instances when that happens.

              If Reddit had been magically federated with the rest of the threadiverse, for example, it would have made reacting to their recent API decisions much easier.

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                I dont really see your point. Sure, instances can do that. But instances and its users can also not do that, and right now its just instance users arguing that we shouldnt do that.

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                  Thankfully, “we” are not a monolith. People who don’t mind some level of interaction with Meta can do that, those who want zero contact with it can do that, and all is well.

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            I think it moreso has to do with the fact that as soon as Fediverse networking became more popular, Meta immediately comes along and creates another social media platform that uses Fediverse as more of a flashy buzzword.

            The point of the Fediverse seems to be “content where you want to see it, how you want to see it, when you want to see it”. Promoting a more open ecosystem of specially tailored instances for what an individual user wants as their content.

            Meta comes along with Threads, the nearly perfect antithesis of what the Fediverse is. Immediately gobbling up users due to both brand recognition and by seizing a customer base fleeing Reddit trying to figure out what the Fediverse is and not wanting to “miss out” on their communities and content as it migrates here.