Not sure what to think of this honestly. Like imagine a small email provider decided to block Gmail, that's a death sentence. It's impossible to get people to switch apps when they have to leave behind all of the content and people they used an app to interact with. And let's be honest, threads is going to run at a loss for a long time to grow their userbase before they start pulling weird shit. We need to have a migration path when that happens, and if threads is blocked everywhere, people will lose their content and contacts upon switching, so they won't do it.
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I consider email (and snail mail) a significantly more essential service than social media. Email service providers starting to block each other is much more likely to have a negative effect on my life than being disconnected from some friends, influencers or current news
I’m actually shocked by the growth of threads, I underestimated how much people don’t care about their digital privacy.
But.... Do we really expect Threads users to make their Mastodon-type tweets even show up on Reddit-style Lemmy?
Forgive my ignorance but how is Threads part of the fediverse? How did .ml defederate it?
Every time I see his face it looks like it's a photo shop to make him look bad but it's his actual face
~~But Lemmy isn't activitypub? Unless threads opens up to lemmys protocol it wouldn't be able to see anything anyway... Right?~~