@bluefirex Remember when the twitter users flooded...

@bluefirex Remember when the twitter users flooded mastodon and expected it to be like Twitter? If they'd outnumbered Mastodon users, which Threads users do by a factor of five or ten I think, they'd have changed this place, not the other way around.

These are my concerns. I hope I'm wrong. Because there's nothing to be done about it but resist.

Like 16 Dec 2023 at 18:47 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mas.to

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Benjamin Schmidt

@OrionKidder I don't think the platform will change. It will probably stay a kind of needy bubble for quite a while while the celebs are on Threads. Just like different internet forums can co-exist with one another.

16 Dec 2023 at 19:09 | Open on mastodon.online

Orion Ussner kidder

@bluefirex What I see on here includes reposts, and there will be much more Threads content to repost than anything else. I can turn off reposts, but then I diminish my Mastodon experience, plus that's a per-follow opt-in, a big barrier to use.

As the space absorbs more and more of Threads' content, it becomes Threads in style and culture, and we have been, in effect, colonized. I mean no disrespect to colonized peoples when I say that. It's the closest historical analogue I can think of.

16 Dec 2023 at 19:17 | Open on mas.to