this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023

20 points (81.2% liked)

Fediverse

28552 readers

744 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Posts must be on topic.
Be respectful of others.
Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

20

Threads app: Instagram owner’s Twitter rival logs 5 million users in first hours (self.fediverse)

submitted 1 year ago by Frostwolf to c/fediverse

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1121773

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/06/meta-launches-twitter-rival-threads-in-100-countries

I am confused. Why hasn’t mastodon capitalized on this yet? With the drama of reddit and hype around lemmy shouldn’t we see some fanfare for mastodon and other open source alternatives too? Meanwhile a meta-affiliated product logs 5 million users on launch day.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's about advertising. it's very corny, but it's true. if mastodon/lemmy had the same advertising power as Facebook/Twitter, then there would be comparable results.