There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.
There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.
it is a good thing, meta users have the ability to leave meta’s apps or instances, but still communicate with people they know, or the massive community. For those who don’t want this, they can defederate client side, so it only affects them personally. De-federating server side is the issue however, as user’s wouldn’t be able to make that decision for themselves.
i agree with the mastodon founder’s views on this, xmpp was very niche, especially to people who weren’t tech savvy, I don’t think it’s fair to say that google killed it. Besides, there was no official client or webgui for it, unlike kbin/lemmy, but rather many unofficial clients/apps, which not only made adoption of it harder, but also delayed feature parity across apps. These issues don’t exist with lemmy/kbin or mastodon.