Lots of people on Mastodon have been losing their shit over Threads joining the fediverse, so I wanted to give my opinion on this whole shit show.

Here’s a very different take on Threads by a Fosstodon admin.

  • bitwise
    2•7 months ago

    Why spend the money up front? That’s just bad business. They’ll only do it if there’s real traction in the rest of the verse blocking their shit.

    • 0xtero
      2•7 months ago

      Why spend the money up front? That’s just bad business.

      Yeah agreed. They’re building a multi-million dollar social network - why spend all that money up front when they could have just installed small anonymous Pleroma on Raspberry Pi for under 100 bucks if they’d wanted to mine our data.

      I don’t think fedi is their “target”.

      • @datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1•7 months ago

        I don’t think fedi is their “target”.

        I don’t think scraping posts is their “target”

        FTFY