@J12t Well put: "“Meta is hoping for at least tens...

@J12t Well put:

"“Meta is hoping for at least tens of millions of users within the first few months of availability”. The Fediverse currently has between 1 and 2 million active monthly users. So Meta is expecting at least 10x of those numbers by the end of the year.

(If you think of it, of course they want those kinds of numbers. Both Facebook and Instagram have far more than a billion users each."

I'd offer a fourth possible reason: To kill Twitter.

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Johannes Ernst

@tchambers I don’t think ActivityPub is going to be terribly helpful for them in a fight against Twitter, except for reasons #1 and #2 I give.

26 Jun 2023 at 0:38 | Open on social.coop

Tim Chambers

@J12t One factor I think applies to Twitter -- I think it is a fight for top influencers, and every post they do on "Threads" is one less Tweet, and the top 10 percent of Twiter users produce 50 percent of Elon's revenue. As top accounts shift from Twitter to Threads, it sucks a disproportionate level of revuen away from Twitter.

26 Jun 2023 at 1:39 | Open on indieweb.social