• okiokbar@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The outcome then would be that Meta’s instance would be defederated/defederate itself - how would that be different from now?

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      They’d probably attract more people (even people that are here right now) before doing so. Thus creating another centralized platform.

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        1 year ago

        If the Threads product was so superior, and Mastodon so unable to respond that millions would leave Mastodon - sure. I doubt it though…

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          You’re severely underestimating the budget Meta can throw at this. Mastodon/Lemmy/etc. right now are largely volunteer-run as opposed to full-time employees.

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            1 year ago

            That argument suggests open source products couldn’t possibly compete with a closed-source alternative.

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              They can compete of they have the manpower to do so. Lemmy has literally only 2 devs. How many devs can Meta pay to work on Threads and outpace it?

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                  But they can easily implement Lemmy-like features on it or make another sister-app. It isn’t hard to bruteforce such things when you have that much money and developers

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          I wouldn’t underestimate them though. After all, they own some of the biggest social network platforms on the globe and have the formula to hook people up down to a t.

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      While Threads is federated social circles and communities will have time to form. Thread users will by nature of having the support of a corporate juggernaut, be the lions share of users on the 'verse. When threads pull the plug, the Fedverse becomes a ghost town overnight and everyone not on Threads will be forced to migrate if they want to keep their social circles and communities intact.

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        I think few people would migrate away in that scenario. Some might create additional accounts (none of this is zero-sum). It’s not unlikely that Mastodon itself will become bigger because of it, and it’ll get hard for Meta to unilaterally pull the plug - a bit like email.