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   O. Simard-Casanova in English (osc@econtwitter.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 07:33:03 JST O. Simard-Casanova in English

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   • Gabriel Pettier

   @tshirtman All of this is almost a textbook example of a moral panic

   People speculate from very little information, they conflate their opinions with facts, and end up with some catastrophic conclusion that push them to take irrational, drastic actions

   This is a very uninteresting debate

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     Gabriel Pettier (tshirtman@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 07:33:03 JST Gabriel Pettier

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     @osc i do agree with that, i see a lot of very thinly justified panic, and calls to arms that are potentially harmful or at best ineffective, because they are not based on clearly identified problems, but rather on the general sense of a vital threat.

     It is concerning, yes.

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     Gabriel Pettier (tshirtman@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 07:33:04 JST Gabriel Pettier

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     @osc well, they see it as a threat to the fediverse, so it's not really what they mean, i think. I agree the arguments i have seen to justify that fear are not really compelling, but they are not entirely baseless either.

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     O. Simard-Casanova in English (osc@econtwitter.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 07:33:05 JST O. Simard-Casanova in English

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     Multiple people have responded that they actively wish for Threads to fail

     Wishing such a blow to the Fediverse is a hell of a take

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     O. Simard-Casanova in English (osc@econtwitter.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 07:33:06 JST O. Simard-Casanova in English

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     In this scenario, a significant share of #Threads users would migrate to non-Meta parts of the Fediverse, such as Mastodon

     I don't wish for Threads to fail. But in this scenario, so many users sticking to the #Fediverse would still be an improvement, number wise, compared to the current dynamics.

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     O. Simard-Casanova in English (osc@econtwitter.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 07:33:07 JST O. Simard-Casanova in English

     I think there's a scenario that has been barely discussed involving #Threads and the #Fediverse, but it's an interesting one

     Mosseri has said that Threads users will be able to migrate their account

     Let's assume Threads is a failure and #Meta decides to kill it

     By Meta's standard, even if Threads is a failure, it will probably have dozens of millions of active users

     Even if a portion of them wants to stay in the Fediverse, they will need to migrate somewhere else

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