Because Threads didn’t federate. It turns out when they said that they’ll federate, they actually meant “some time in the undisclosed future.” And then Threads lost a lot of that initial marketing hype so everyone forgot about it.

Apparently Meta is currently testing federation for Threads, though? The problem about Threads federating isn’t resolved, to be entirely clear. It was merely that everyone, Meta included, just decided to kick the can down the road and think about the issue later.

Threads still hasn’t actually fully connected with the fediverse, they are working on that, and until yesterday they weren’t live in Europe yet, so it wasn’t a real alternative for many people. That is changing drastically.

This post sounds to me exactly like people’s reactions to Brexit. They were like “see, it’s not to bad” for the whole time when nothing was implemented yet. And then it actually went live, and everything went to shit. Keep an eye on when things actually go live the way they plan.

The issue was about threads implementing federation to connect to mastodon, lemmy and other networks that use that system. They did not implement it then, but said they would do it in the future. The topic has come up again because they announced they’re doing it now.

Don’t think it was federated at first if that’s what you’re asking.

It you’re asking why users didn’t migrate, probably because we like a forum experience rather than microblog following. I tried out bsky and it was a lot of pups. Like a lot. Like a pup fucking a pumpkin came up front page. I wouldn’t usually care, but it wasn’t marked suggestive.

Anyway, probably because there’s no pups on threads.

I’m curious about the resources required to federate with threads. It would utterly dwarf every other instance in every capacity, 1000fold. Wouldn’t this put a fair bit of financial pressure on every federated instance?

I saw the word “survive” and for a second I thought we were talking about Threads, the postapocalyptic movie that scarred a generation.

I need more coffee.

Tapping in that hatred for Zuck, that’ll do to stay away from that platform.

Threads was a relatively bare-bones app when it launched. It didn’t have many of the features that users had come to expect from other social media apps, such as the ability to post photos or videos, or to add filters or stickers.

With no “global delete” option, couldn’t users just poison the well with GDPR requests (Article 17: Right To Be Forgotten)?

Instance owners “allegedly” run on charity and donation, so 4% of$0 is still $0.