It's crazy how many people will just click accept on security warning them that an app will access literally everything on their phone.

It's also crazy how many people don't even know that Threads is Meta... where the f have these people been for the past 10 years?

I've said this a bunch of times, but Mastodon's use of a chronological feed is what kills it. What it really needs is for the default tab to be a "trending" tab, cause that's what users want to see.

No, it's mastodon but centralized. It takes all the difficulty out of signing up for the fediverse, like finding a server. I said it from day 1 on mastodon. We will never see mass adoption until there's a simple sign up process. People like centralized because it's easier.

There are 1 billion active users on Instagram and those users were invited to Threads using an existing account. Celebrities, businesses, streamers, etc. all popped up on Threads within the first few hours of public release.

I'm a big nerd and just learned about the fediverse within recent months. Everyone else I know who uses Twitter and Threads have no clue what Mastodon is.

Nice meme but pls.

The thing I noticed right out of the gate when I went slumming on Threads is that the Android app package is 77MB. Compare that to Mastodon at 2.5MB.

Two apps that (from the user's perspective) do pretty much the same thing - make queries to servers and display pieces of text on the screen, maybe with some pictures or videos. Not that hard.

So what does that extra 74MB of bloat in the Threads app do? Meta's not telling us...

The problem with Mastodon is discoverability. The fact that if I follow 10 hashtags, it won't sort them on my homepage, but will be fully chronological.

Say I follow #photography. The top of my homepage would be the post posted 2s ago, no matter how bad it is. It is so hard to find quality content.

Now, Threads' algorithm is pretty bad, but it's still a lot easier to find quality content there instead of on Mastodon. Mastodon badly needs sorting by Hot, Active etc like there is on Lemmy.

Don't forget the amount of data you'll be sharing, including health records

The average Twitter user has no idea what Mastodon is.

Federation is so confusing! Why can't I just sign up at facebook.com where the rest of the internet is? You guys and your cryptofederatedarkweb.

Literally this, or the Web3 BS Bluesky.

Back to business as usual. The reality is that the majority of people can’t be bothered with privacy and other scandals from GAFAM.

The silver lining of the whole Reddit and Twitter fiasco is that more people are interested in and participating in a decentralized network. That’s a good thing for the community.

Anyone else notice the cursor on the top left?

Nah, Twitter users stay where they are. That's Instagram users seeing what Twitter is like.

It's insane how much people actually unironically shill for Meta and Zuckerberg now because Elmo is mad. Fucking Zuckerberg...

Threads is the narcissism of Instgrammers and the psychopathy of Twitterers

I can barely find anything in Arabic on the fediverse, but on threads I can find all the relevant and local posts I want in Arabic

I much rather use mastodon. It's so much better, despite the volume, but low volume is nice at times. Feels manageable. Being able to stick to local instances but also link to others is great. All around better model compared to centralized stuff.

Also it frees up my time to do other things.

An alternative to Twitter with an Instagram flavor.

They ended up going back to Twitter lol