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0 pointsipaddr2y ago0 comments

Thread users are today's aol users. Better to keep them out of areas where real conversations happen

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dbfx2y ago· 2 in thread

Then I fail to see the issue since "real conversations" aren't happening on the fediverse either.

What do you mean by this? There's over a million active users including quite a few high profile people like Cory Doctorow.

nemo44x2y ago

There's dozens of real conversations happening. Dozens!

turnsout2y ago· 2 in thread

You are 100% right that Threads users are today's AOL users, and that's a good thing. If Threads actually federates, it will be another Eternal September [0], and we need that for ActivityPub to truly thrive.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

nobody99992y ago

> If Threads actually federates, it will be another Eternal September [0], and we need that for ActivityPub to truly thrive.

Please define "thrive" in this context. Do you mean DAU/MAUs? I know, perhaps, a couple hundred people and respect the opinions/ideas of perhaps a few dozen others I don't know.

Those are the only people I care about interacting with and I can interact with them just fine without Meta's "offerings."

AFAICT, ActivityPub is thriving. It has an active user base, is under active development and doesn't "productize" its users.

I'm not trying to be a jerk here, I just don't understand how you're defining "thrive" in this context.

turnsout2y ago

ActivityPub is doing fine, but the more people who are using it, the better. We saw this with the most recent migration from Twitter to Mastodon about 6 months ago. We got more users, and that brought more developers, bug fixes, enhancements, and new ActivityPub projects.

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