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I’m torn on this one. I want users to migrate to FOSS platforms but at the same time Threads is the best near term solution to drain Twitter users. In a perfect world, I would like the skinheads to stay on Twitter, the attention seeking people to go to threads, and the normal folk to hit Lemmy/Kbin.
The "normal folk" are the lowest common denominators that turn a fun, hobbiest-centric platform into what Reddit and Facebook and Twitter have become.
Give me the freaks and geeks instead; they're the cooler, wiser, less hate-filled people.
At least for me, micro blogging serves very different needs than forums. I don't see them as so interchangeable that Twitter people flock to kbin/Lemmy.
Isn't mastodon the federated microblogging replacement? Lemmy & kbin are the forum/news aggregator replacement instead, correct?
That's meant to be the use case, yeah. Threads kind of wanted to be a bit of both, and of course ended up sucking at both...
We need another feeble attempt by a big corporation to splinter then even further.
Yeah. Google needs to get in there with another product that they will leave in Beta until they cancel it in 18 months.