[infotogivenm]

I think a lot of mastodon users left twitter as part of an existing community, and so the migration process was pretty straightforward; usually they had one community instance that is effectively Threads for them.

I think being bullish on Mastodon in particular is missing the point; a similar comment compared it to saying “Yahoo Mail will be the forever future of electronic messaging!” in the 90s. Of course not; email the protocol was the future, yet yahoo mail chugs along to this day. Likewise ActivityPub (which Threads intends to support) will probably be the future, not any one particular UI implementation in front of it.

[jchw]

The thing that's amazing about ActivityPub is if it becomes large enough to have similar network effects to other social media platforms, it effectively would bring back the ability for people to publish on their own domain without worrying about whether their audience will be able to follow them. In a strange way, ActivityPub feels like it could do what RSS did, only better.

Maybe. Or, maybe it won't. But then again, even if it doesn't take off to the level that people hope, a couple million active is plenty of company still, if it can be sustained.