• Otter@lemmy.ca
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    especially for more mainstream users looking for an alternative to X or Threads.

    That many people use Facebook Threads? That sounds like saying “especially for more mainstream users looking for an alternative to Reddit or New Digg.”

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      People were autoregistered for threads if they already had an account for instagram or facebook iirc. It also auto reposts stuff between those services unless you turn it off i think. They just forcefully injected content from their other platforms to kickstart it.

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        Ah, I just love how laws against anticompetitive business practices have basically been totally flushed down the toilet worldwide, don’t you?

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      X and threads are Microblog pages, seems plausible to me to use them as a comparison. It’s the platforms we want to migrate people from to mastodon.

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        I agree, rather I was surprised that threads grew big enough for people to be trying to migrate away from it.

        In my area / friend circles, I don’t know anyone that continued to use Threads after the initial launch. However, there are people using Mastodon, Bluesky, and Twitter