I hate and don’t trust Meta, so the main benefit for me would be the ability to follow Threads users from my nonprofit, ad free, tracker free, Mastodon account I already have. I don’t want an account with Meta.
That is the first actual benefit I’ve seen, lol. I won’t be following any threads users, so it wouldn’t be a benefit. I also don’t know a single soul that is a threads user either.
AFAIK, there is only one Threads.net
That’s not how it works. When you’re federated together, you get a copy of every post on your server. Someone else said that that can be avoided, but I doubt threads will do anything in the other instance’s favor unless they get something out of it.
Corgana@startrek.website 10 months ago
Nope. Only followed accounts, and only toots made after the first user starts following it.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Right, we’re agreeing. That could still be millions even if the 160 million isn’t true.
Scrollone@feddit.it 10 months ago
It could be millions only if hundreds of Mastodon/Lemmy users start following hundreds of different Threads users.
Which I don’t think it will be the case, since it seems like Threads federation is going to be opt-in by their users.
If 50 Mastodon users start following 100 Threads users, the impact will be negligible, since Threads will only push messages by those 100 users.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
We have over a million users here, it’s likely that 100s are going to follow 100s. That’s not that many.