Meta's Threads.net sure looks a lot like App.net. Is Meta due for a pivot? The legislation the company supports suggests yes.

What if Meta’s hidden objective behind the Threads-to-Mastodon initiative is a play on app.net? And, what if threads.net is a measured step towards what could be the greatest pivot in all of tech?

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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    11 months ago

    If we don’t grow faster, we are always going to be irrelevant. To illustrate the point: Lemmy had a monstrous gift given by Reddit’s management and completely failed to capitalize on it. Later on, when my fediverser project was signing up hundreds of people per day and the conversations started by the bots were used by organic users in niche communities, the reactionaries here decided to treat everything as spam, instead of seeing it as a hook to convert more people.

    Fast forward a few weeks, and now Lemmy is back to being a place to nothing but meta-conversation about the Fediverse and a handful of people pretending they are not using Reddit anymore.

    • Hello Hotel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Yes theres also a lower bound, the upper bound can and should be as high as it should go but im afraid the biggest hurdle to having safe high growth is the possable culture clash. I fear (educated guess) it will happen and im hoping it wont.

      Also, from your example, reddit is not exactly the same culture as lemmy and we had a “what habits do you wanna keep (effectively adopt) or drop from reddit” post, stuff like “/s”. Id say overall few issues and should have and ive heard people encourage going as fast as possable but your saying our radicals pushed back.

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Reddit is not exactly the same culture as lemmy.

        True but I’d argue that, once you start looking into the more niche subreddits, there is no single culture within Reddit itself, and these thousands of smaller niches are the really important ones and could’ve helped with the migration.

        • Hello Hotel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Wow, yes!

          My personal niche, Sbubby was pseudo migrated many diffrent places, 2 discords, a lemmy page and someone is still running the subreddit.

          There was a explosion and resession, there is no hope of finding either discord without their link and the reddit mass exodus was temporary were left fractured across 4 or 5 sites.

          My other niche, on the reddit side is filled with horny people and salesman. Over here, theres a ~4 user/month community thats sweet and loving but has nobody.