Here’s what is collected by Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.

  • ArghZombies@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s more different than people expect it do be, I think. So once people have gotten past the ‘what is an instance/ server, how do I actually join Mastodon…’ stuff that puts people off, they’re then in the infrastructure that kind of looks and acts like Twitter but in different ways that you don’t realise until you’ve delved into things. It’s just more barriers really.

    There is Bluesky as an alternative, but that’s not ActivityPub, it’s it’s own protocol. Personally I think that’s the best option - it’s open source and decentralised - but I think some people have reservations because Jack Dorsey is / was involved. Plus it’s still on beta so is invite-only for the time being.

    • sugar_in_your_tea
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      1 year ago

      I guess we’ll see where it goes then.

      But the fact remains that there really isn’t a realistic FOSS competitor to Twitter, despite that being a fairly easy problem to solve. I would’ve thought that would be one of the first things to get implemented, since it can be filtered in all kinds of interesting ways (e.g. a matrix bridge that listens for topics).

      • ArghZombies@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        While a tech solution to replace Twitter is possible, the tech is only about 5% of what makes Twitter Twitter - the other 95% is the userbase. Which again counts in Threads favour because they already have a huge Instagram userbase. They could release any old hastily put together system and still get 30m users… Hmm.

        • sugar_in_your_tea
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          1 year ago

          Yup, they won initially by being better than Myspace, and I’m convinced they stay on top largely due to inertia.