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Meta's Threads twitter competitor is now live... what do you think? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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i know the fediverse has been pretty split and a lot of big instances (mainly microblogging and mastodon-like softwares, but some lemmy instances are defederating meta too) but what do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm all for it if gathers up a whole bunch of basic/casual internet users and keeps them in the shallow end of the pool.

People are worried about it being an E/E/E manoeuvre but I see it as a plus happening this early - a great scenario to test and observe how federation (and defederation) works in practice and gives the whole ecosystem some experience in dealing with potentially hostile actors.

So far though, worst case is if threads turns out to be a real blight on the fediverse, then major instances with defederate them and that will be the end of it.