Let’s say… a hair over 1/3rd of my IRL friends are active on it because of the Twitter exodus. A much smaller chunk went to Bluesky. And a lot just don’t do much outside of group chats.
There is a 0.00% chance the friends on Threads will ever care to sign up for Mastodon because most of their friends aren’t on it and I don’t blame them. It’d be one more account to maintain for little value.
This is why this insanely exaggerated fear of Threads makes no sense to me. It’s easy to get tech-y people into Mastodon but that’s not everyone’s social circle. Most people genuinely do not care about federation. They just want a place to follow friends and people they like.
Who?
There are substantially more people active on Threads than at any point in time on Mastodon or Bluesky.
Yeah, and which people
Big ≠ good
Let’s say… a hair over 1/3rd of my IRL friends are active on it because of the Twitter exodus. A much smaller chunk went to Bluesky. And a lot just don’t do much outside of group chats.
There is a 0.00% chance the friends on Threads will ever care to sign up for Mastodon because most of their friends aren’t on it and I don’t blame them. It’d be one more account to maintain for little value.
This is why this insanely exaggerated fear of Threads makes no sense to me. It’s easy to get tech-y people into Mastodon but that’s not everyone’s social circle. Most people genuinely do not care about federation. They just want a place to follow friends and people they like.