As you've probably heard, Threads (a fairly new social network from Facebook's parent company Meta) is testing integration with the fediverse. Depending on how you look at it, it's a great opportunity, a huge threat, or both!

Back in May and June, when Threads' first announced their plans, there were quite a few polls on Mastodon about people's reactions, most showing opinions split roughly equally. How do people feel today?

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[–] DLSantini@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Their goal is pretty standard affair.

Claim to be simply making yourself part of the group for the benefit of everyone. We're all gonna be friends, this is good for you, you'll see.
Use your position and resources to make yourself the defacto way to use the tech. Bonus points of you can make the average person see you and said tech as being one in the same.
Once you have gathered a high enough percentage of the users, simply make changes or take other actions that will cut yourself off from everywhere else, effectively cutting off those users from anywhere that is not you. Since most of them are already "your" users, barely any of them will even notice anything change, let alone care.
Repeat previous steps for any new competing service that covers along to threaten you.

[–] farcaller@fstab.sh 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

isn’t threads already several times larger than the whole of the “fediverse”?

[–] Lucia@eviltoast.org 1 points 11 months ago

100 millions users of Threads against ~1.5M users of the whole Fedi. It won't be a toxic relationship for sure.