Facebook has tried to compete with Twitter in numerous ways over the years, including copying signature Twitter features such as hashtags and trending topics. But now Facebook’s parent company is taking perhaps its biggest swipe at Twitter yet.

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    1 year ago

    Maybe, but I think it has more to do with the wall-to-wall mainstream news coverage of the launch of Threads in recent days, compared to the relative handful of isolated mentions Mastodon has had in the last 12 months.

    If people didn’t care about ethics or privacy, that doesn’t mean they won’t switch to Mastodon, it merely doesn’t mean they will go. Those people will just go where the crowds go.