okiokbar comments on how to block meta from mastodon

[–] okiokbar@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago (6 children)

If the Threads product was so superior, and Mastodon so unable to respond that millions would leave Mastodon - sure. I doubt it though..

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 6 child comments

[–] catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 years ago (4 children)

You’re severely underestimating the budget Meta can throw at this. Mastodon/Lemmy/etc. right now are largely volunteer-run as opposed to full-time employees.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 4 child comments

[–] okiokbar@lemm.ee 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

That argument suggests open source products couldn’t possibly compete with a closed-source alternative.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 3 child comments

[–] Marxine@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

They can compete of they have the manpower to do so. Lemmy has literally only 2 devs. How many devs can Meta pay to work on Threads and outpace it?

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] okiokbar@lemm.ee 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Threads isn’t a Lemmy competitor - it competes with Mastodon

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 1 child comment

[–] Marxine@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

But they can easily implement Lemmy-like features on it or make another sister-app. It isn't hard to bruteforce such things when you have that much money and developers

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

[–] youthinkyouknowme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 years ago

I wouldn't underestimate them though. After all, they own some of the biggest social network platforms on the globe and have the formula to hook people up down to a t.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent