It’s been a wild week for the open social web ( dev.to )

Madison_rogue , 11 months ago

Quite frankly I'm a little anxious about Threads. We all know Meta's playbook, and 30 million subscribers is a huge influx. At this time I suppose it's a wait and see. However I do agree that decentralization is strength, and that kbin does have the potential to interface with Threads more because of the microblogging feature.

I'm personally at an "arms length" stance on the whole thing right now. I don't trust Zuckerberg & Meta.

icg937 , 11 months ago

@Madison_rogue @ernest I don't think those 30 million subscribers are a huge influx. I think those were already Instagram users with a default profile on Threads. Like when you had a Gmail account in 2010, and at some point afterwards (2014, more or less) you instantly had a Youtube account.

Not even Twitter had 30 million users during its first 2 days, that's insane.

Madison_rogue , 11 months ago

Sure, the majority of the 30 million subscribers is through Instagram. What I'm referring to is an influx of 30 million users should Threads choose to federate, and whether or not it overwhelms the smaller instances throughout Fedi.

I suppose it might not, however I'm just extremely reluctant about Meta's involvement.

Copy, Acquire, Kill

bezoar , 11 months ago

...86 million the last I heard and it already has tons of posts. It really will be a fire hose. 1, 2, 3