Here’s a very different take on Threads by a Fosstodon admin.

  • Gamma
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    111 months ago

    If they wanted to do this, they already would be.

    • bitwise
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      211 months ago

      Why spend the money up front? That’s just bad business. They’ll only do it if there’s real traction in the rest of the verse blocking their shit.

      • 0xtero
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        11 months ago

        Why spend the money up front? That’s just bad business.

        Yeah agreed. They’re building a multi-million dollar social network - why spend all that money up front when they could have just installed small anonymous Pleroma on Raspberry Pi for under 100 bucks if they’d wanted to mine our data.

        I don’t think fedi is their “target”.

        • @datavoid@lemmy.ml
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          111 months ago

          I don’t think fedi is their “target”.

          I don’t think scraping posts is their “target”

          FTFY