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@kbin.social
      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@kbin.social
        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