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Twitter accuses Meta of hiring former staff in cease-and-desist letter
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Threads is federated. So even if Threads absolutely takes over the microblogging market, that doesn’t kill Mastodon. Instead it guarantees the long term viability of Mastodon.
At least that is my naive hope.
That hope is indeed naive. If you want to see what threat Threads poses, look at how Google killed XMPP.
On the other hand, google didn’t kill smtp with Gmail.
First of all, SMTP was much more well-established before Google came along than XMPP was.
Second, from what I've heard, Gmail (and other big players like Hotmail etc.) did have a substantial detrimental effect on the proverbial "little guy's" ability to self-host email... at least if he wants outbound messages to actually be delivered instead of blocked, anyway.
Agree that's my hope, that it takes the whole idea of the Fediverse into the mainstream, and that it will live on no matter what happens to Mastodon.
It's difficult to predict what will happen, but that's my hope as well. I'm going to wait and see what happens with threads federation before making any decisions.