[xelia]

I think Threads appeals to a different set of people than BlueSky - or at least a different side of a person.

The lack of anonymity with Threads makes it a completely different experience for me.

So I wouldn’t really say they’re competitors.

[3cats-in-a-coat]

This is the ideal scenario, where if we'll be getting fragmentation due to Twitter outflow, at least it leads to specialization for different optimal scenarios.

Human identity is important in order to reduce astroturfing which has reached critical proportions and is literally defining and destroying businesses, political regimes and so on. So the interest in abusing anonymous accounts, fake accounts, AI accounts, is great.

But anon accounts are also needed. Having distinct platforms, one that focuses on human identity and decency, corporate cleanliness & user friendliness, and one that focuses on anonymous accounts, decentralization, power users, but may also come with trolls, abuse, scams... seems like a nice duo.

[vitorgrs]

You can be anonymous on threads. Both on Threads and Instagram. Only on Facebook you can't, I believe.