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Threads app: Instagram owner’s Twitter rival logs 5 million users in first hours (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1121773

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/06/meta-launches-twitter-rival-threads-in-100-countries

I am confused. Why hasn’t mastodon capitalized on this yet? With the drama of reddit and hype around lemmy shouldn’t we see some fanfare for mastodon and other open source alternatives too? Meanwhile a meta-affiliated product logs 5 million users on launch day.

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[–] OasissisaO@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Because the way Threads works is almost seamlessly allowing existing Instagram users to create a Threads account. There is no corollary for Masto or Lemmy or any Fed entities to do something similar.

It's corporate synergy, baby.