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   Grant Gulovsen (gulovsen@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 01:47:39 JST Grant Gulovsen

   I’m not entirely clear as to what’s going on with Threads but it looks an awful lot like they’re setting up a vampire-style attack on any server that federates with them since the only way to fully participate is to move to Threads, thereby draining the active users on Mastodon and elsewhere (which in turn makes being here less valuable). Is that about right or am I missing something?

   #Threads #Mastodon #Fediverse #Meta

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 01:47:38 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Jon

     @jonpainterphoto @gulovsen It's also important to note that this is the first step, not a final stage. They plan to have replies coming back to Threads fairly soon, and letting Threads users follow fediverse users around the end of the year.

     https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/

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     Jon (jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 01:47:39 JST Jon

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @gulovsen I see the reverse. This is a huge opportunity.

     “Threads or Mastodon” is a false dilemma for Masto users. People on the fediverse are less likely to jump solely to Threads.

     On the flip side, a lot of Threads users saw the beta announcement and said “what the heck is the fediverse?” They received good answers from people like @evan. If they’ve entered the beta, they can see engagement from the fediverse, but they just get a notification that says “someone liked this on the fediverse.”

     There’s a huge opportunity for free advertising. Every like of a threads.net account is a ping to someone who probably isn’t here, and they need to start a fedi account to experience the fediverse fully since Threads is just sending one way traffic.

     Also, given I’ve seen my threads post take 7-30 minutes to pop up here, and the verification seems to be buggy, incremental integration seems necessary.