What Erik Moeller is trying to say is that posting to a Twitter alternative owned by rich people is doing free work for said rich people.
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What Erik Moeller is trying to say is that posting to a Twitter alternative owned by rich people is doing free work for said rich people.
I’ve heard that in Sweden there’s a group supporting free public transport called Planka.nu, which encourages fare dodging and operates an insurance fund for paying penalty fares.
And there are of course other things. I just think that under the world’s current paradigm, these, at least individually, seem relatively attainable without a literal revolution.
That’s the more common variant, but “embrace, extend, exterminate” is also used.
Honestly, I don’t see why Threads couldn’t be intended to destroy both Twitter foremost, and also the fediverse before it’s big enough to pose any real threat: Mastodon has some two million monthly active users right now, which is tiny compared to Twitter/Threads, yes, but it’s also not nothing, especially for what Mastodon is and how quickly it managed to reach that level of usage.
So I don’t doubt that Threads has ill intentions for both the underdog and overdog. I just don’t think that the fediverse can be killed that easily.
Are people really saying “the fediverse is doomed”?
To be frank, I still don’t get it, but I also hardly qualify as a human to begin with.
I get the others, but why that last one?
Honestly, I feel like Mastodon is kinda never going to be like Twitter, even if its user count were to grow by two orders of magnitude. There are several reasons why, as the other replies point out, but the most important (IMO) is that Mastodon is just not a profit-driven platform. And if Mastodon is not a profit-driven platform, it is not designed to maximize user engagement. And if it is not designed to maximize user engagement, it is not designed to encourage toxic behavior.