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What to know about Threads (blog.joinmastodon.org)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of the people I follow are trying out Threads, but because of no federation yet, you need to use their app to see what they post there. It's a bit clumsy and I don't think that they launched without fed on accident.

I wonder if we'll also see people posting on both Threads and Mastodon, which will mean having to follow two accounts for one person if I want to see both. Just seems odd to use both rather than migrate.

Trying to think positive about this, but just not seeing many upsides so far.

[–] woelkchen 5 points 1 year ago

It’s a bit clumsy and I don’t think that they launched without fed on accident.

No, they defined a minimum valuable product and had to get a somewhat stable app out the door to capitalize on Twitter's negative press. Deadlines are how features get cut. You see this in video games all the time.