It is a different level of scale, mastodon has about 1 million users spread over a bunch of instances. Threads has over 200 million users on one instance. also due to the network nature of social media the amount of connections and messages sent through those connections can scale exponentially with the amount of users.
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arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoImage It took around a year for a solo dev (and a couple contributors) to develop a fully federated platform. Why is it taking on of the largest companies on the planet this long to make such tiny changes that are useless anyway.
And why are they releasing it like this instead of releasing everything at once?
Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 3 weeks ago
Definitely can appreciate the carefulness here. Imagine they just open the floodgates and now some random Mastodon instance on a $5 VPS is getting hammered with millions of activities because they followed an account with millions of followers on Threads, and now it’s federating millions of likes and thousands of posts.
Meta is trying to be a good fediverse participant here. They could just come in and crush the entire fediverse and be like “lol should have gotten beefier servers”.
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’d hope it’s carefulness but it doesn’t seem like it. Facebook should want to destroy fediverse instances (from a business point of view), they are supposed to be a monopoly and the fediverse is their biggest competitor.
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 2 weeks ago
Only time will tell. They’ve definitely done their own share of EEE like for a while you could use Facebook Messenger over XMPP then closed it down.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I’m guessing because they don’t want it to.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because every step of the way, they need a flock of MBAs to figure out the answer to the question “How do we make money off of this?”
Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I’m rather guessing the other way around. Because they can’t directly extract money from this, they can’t justify to their shareholders to sit down full-time devs. Instead, this is a project solely run by interns and student.