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    1 year ago

    Out compete with whom? Mastodon is not their rival. Our population is non existent to theirs and is completely irrelevant. They already have a locked down protocol that we can’t interact with. I cannot stress this enough: they give zero fucks about the fedi population, and they have nothing to gain from attempting to absorb and extremely small community compared to theirs. Also literally the most resilient community out there.

    So I ask again, who are they competing with? They have nothing to gain from us.

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      1 year ago

      They don’t need to absorb it. They just have to prevent it from growing as fast. The Fediverse grew orders if magnitude over the last month. If this continues, everything will be the Fediverse. Meta obviously doesn’t want that and Threads is a panicked attempt to “nip it in the bud”.

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        1 year ago

        If that was the case, then they’d go for Bluesky which will inevitably grow significantly bigger.

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          Could be. Perhaps the developers of Bluesky realized the dangers of letting them in and showed them the door early. Perhaps it’s still to small to take seriously. Who knows.

          What we do know though is that the Fediverse grew over leaps and bounds recently and is thus very much on their radar. That’s a bad place to be.

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            Also I don’t know if Bluesky protocol is public anywhere? It’s possible it could bridge with ActivityPub as well.

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              That was not my point. I never focused on the “what it is right now” because that can easily change or be changed, but rather on “what could potentially happen”.

              These actions we need to prevent, or mitigate. Joining them or letting them join us does not do any of that. We’re letting them dictate the playbook right now.