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   Jorge Caballero, MD (datadrivenmd@fedified.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:11:26 JST Jorge Caballero, MD

   QTs + easier onboarding + engagement stats = the reason people are leaving Mastodon, and will use Threads instead.

   As I and many others with experience predicted: Threads doesn't need to federate, so all the virtue signaling on here was a total waste of time. That effort should have been spent on bringing much-needed features to Mastodon.

   And FTR, I tried to bridge the features gap:
   https://felk.social
   https://discover.fedified.com

   But even so, the gatekeepers got their way. /1

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     Jorge Caballero, MD (datadrivenmd@fedified.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:29:54 JST Jorge Caballero, MD

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     3/ Real talk: the way things are going, Mastodon *needs* Meta to follow through on its promises to become AP compliant in order to stand a chance long term. And, we better hope that Threads signups slow down enough to give Meta a reason to care about the European market because, at the current clip of signups, Threads could easily coast for 2-3 years without the EU. /XX

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     Jorge Caballero, MD (datadrivenmd@fedified.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 06:29:57 JST Jorge Caballero, MD

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     2/ As I predicted a couple days ago: Threads will be the end of Bluesky and Twitter. I don't think it's game over for Mastodon, but it's naïve to look at 30 million signups with zero federation and claim that it validates slow decision making and feature-restricting to appease gatekeepers that are going to defederate anyway. /X

     Erin Conroy repeated this.