Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse

However, while I saw some really nice updates come through, I also saw some that weren’t so great. It felt like they were making poor choices, likely because of their legal department.

Eugen Rochko: That’s exactly how I would put it. It’s like Cambridge Analytica burned them, and they didn’t want a repeat. And that really limited what they could do.

The tone of how they speak about Meta and Threads bothers me. It was incredibly obvious why it failed.

threads = meta/Facebook... one of the main reasons why people came to the fediverse in the first place, was to get the hell away from those crappy corporations. who honestly though it was smart to have them try to infect the fediverse.

I'm hoping the sucessor of the fediverse is something from the spritely institute

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