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This seems like a pretty good statement regarding Threads from @Gargron https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

What to know about Threads

There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.
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@Eugen Rochko

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Jackson Palmer
Jackson Palmer
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"XMPP did not exist on its own outside of nerd circles" is the funniest thing I've read today.
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Eugen Rochko
Eugen Rochko
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Am I wrong? People used Facebook Messenger, people used Google Talk, but very few people outside of tech knew about ejabberd or Prosody. I say this as one of those people.
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sfunk1x
sfunk1x
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@ummjackson I straight up had a colleague say he wasn't chatting with anyone that wasn't using Skype when XMPP got brought up in a group conversation a decade+ ago. He uses signal now, though.

The problem is a lot of the configuration was not user friendly, combined with more expensive hosting. I would say that something like Synapse is much more complex (potentially) but the configuration is much more straight forward. The maintenance, though, is not.

@Jackson Palmer
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sharp
sharp
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@ummjackson I think you underestimate what an embrace-extend-extinguish scenario looks like. I don't think it follows that at the end we are left with the same network we have now.
@Jackson Palmer
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Neerja Tripathi
Neerja Tripathi
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so, I did join #threads because I am seriously sick of #twitter - but, here is the thing- Mastodon- with all its complexities- feels more of home than Threads. I amhoping Mastodon will be the stable alternative to Twitter
#Twitter #threads

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