I don’t get it
If people want a twitter alternative, why don’t they just go to mastodon instead of threads?
You badly underestimate the proportion of people who have never heard of Mastadon.
Because famous figures or organizations are the primary draw for the mainstream audience over random users. And many use it because they themselves hope to use the huge platform to promote or try to become an influencer.
Yep, without actual big content creators the platform is just randos talking about their private life. That’s not inherently a bad thing but Mastodon often feels to me more like Facebook for software developers than something like Twitter where’d if actually find interesting new people to follow or art/music/games to enjoy.
Lack of proper discovery tools and algorithm is also a big issue.
Mastodon seems to be more confusing than Threads or Bluesky for most users
That number seems like a comically generous estimation in threads favor. The platform seems to have no content whatsoever
Has anyone else noticed some people on lemmy referring to the fediverse as the threadiverse? That’s Threads astroturfing, right?
I’m pretty sure “threadiverse” means Lemmy/Kbin which have threaded conversations, not Threads.
