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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly I think this is good for the fediverse.

It instantly boosts mastodon and Pixelfed’s reach, which means people won’t dismiss posting there as it never gets seen.

I would never open a Threads account, but it unlocks seeing content from a lot of people I like who ditched Twitter but didn’t understand mastodon.

Yes, this can also be Embrace, Extend Extinguish, but I’m happy for the publicity.

If people don’t like it they can join an instance that defederatrs from Meta and that’s totally fine.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This sounds like it’s NOT going to increase mastodon and pixelfed’s reach

it doesn’t sound like you’ll be able to post from Mastodon to Threads

It looks like they’re only pushing right now, they’re not allowing Threads users to pull content in from the broader fediverse. Threads content gets exposure on Mastodon, but not the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Tbf, that's just in regards to the current tests. It could change later on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So it seems like they're just doing it to push their posts onto instances almost as advertisment. Not a great practice, seems very spammy to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, that's unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Because the integration isn’t finished yet.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s funny how “mastodon is too complicated” stops when the instance they pick is Threads.

🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People who say that are generally talking about the signup where you have to pick an instance. And then there's the worry over which other servers yours federates with. If you isolate your attention to a single instance, then all those worries go away.

The same already happens on the fediverse in regards to mastodon itself. A lot of people discuss the fediverse almost wholly in terms of mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also mastodon.social the flagship instance really kind of sucks. It has strict rate limiting and poor moderation (gotten lots of follows and follow requests from gross people on there. Also means it'll usually be Limited by other servers or blocked by their users.

So doesn't really help with the idea that all of Mastodon isn't like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also doesn't work with a VPN.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it might depend on what VPN you use, I was able to use it from VPNs and Tor (Tor is kind of slow though). On Tor though it very much struggled to load images and the requests would take longer.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

threads only has one instance

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But now it’s one of hundreds you could pick to participate in ActivityPub/Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

you don’t need to pick instance to join threads

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you don't need pick instance step to join mastodon.social

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

you have to pick mastodon.social out of all mastodon instances to join

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have to pick mastodon.social to join 😵‍💫

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

more content isn’t better content

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And that's why all social media is bad.

Look, open socials can either replace closed socials or be a niche little fun exclusive club for techheads exclusively focused on Star Trek and Linux and how open socials should replace closed socials. You can't have both.

So if the conclusion here is that popular social media sucks... yeah, you're right. Because all social media sucks. The content won't be better if the same people join Mastodon than if they come from Threads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't agree at all here. If someone on threads has posts you like, you can follow them. If not, you won't see any posts from threads on your feed.

Your feed will either be the same as before, or better than before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See what? Posts from threads? Depends on your instance and how you browse.

Lemmy has no microblogging features so you won't be seeing any (unless they're specifically posting to Lemmy)

Kbin I'm not too sure since there are microblogging features but idk how they work.

Mastodon; you will see posts from threads users if you follow them, or if someone you follow boosts a post from them.
If you browse by the explore/posts tab, you might see some threads posts. Also from the 'All'/federated tab.
You'll be able to block threads for your account, or choose an instance that's defederated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

am use kbin microblogging feature

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, not always, but there are people I know I like and respect and used to follow on Twitter that are on threads and I'm not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If enough people that they want to follow give them the "mastodon.social treatment" as I'm calling it (which basically means rejecting them based on being on an instance with a bad reputation) they might, they also might not. I know plenty of people who choose to stay on Mastodon.social even though they're limited by lots of servers and users for spam. Same would probably happen with threads. Though I imagine there will be significantly more animosity towards threads than mastodon.social because threads is not just a bot infested mastodon instance, it's run by Facebook.