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Do you think Meta's Threads app will be beneficial or detrimental to the Fediverse? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Aityz@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social
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Personally I believe that it'll make people associate the Fediverse with Threads, which is not a good thing. Edit: It'll replace their definition of the Fediverse, with Threads, and people may widely forget about Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin etc.

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[–] Ignacio@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Considering that the big majority of Threads' users are cringe influencers, brands that are ads themselves, and celebrities who don't want to interact with anybody but their bootlickers (who are also celebrities), I would say it's detrimental to the fediverse.

[–] NotTheOnlyGamer@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're judging the platform based on the earliest of early adopters. Yes, people with nothing to lose and everything to gain by being on the ground floor of the platform have joined, but general adoption will take a little while. It will grow and normalize. They do have an uphill battle convincing people to leave Twitter, and frankly, ActivityPub isn't a big selling point. Being able to talk to nerds who left Twitter and Reddit isn't going to drive the average Instagram user or current average Twitter user to a platform - or else they'd be here. Yes, that's the side many of us know, but we are not average users.