Is threads bad? Yes. But Elon being knocked down a peg or two is worth it.

I don't know how I feel about that. They both deserve to be treated like cartel criminals. NOTHING LESS.

You gotta realize criminals and street life is the same as the mainstream. Please trust me.

Fuck Elmo but I just don't want Meta to replace Twitter's social media niche. I would prefer if Mastodon would be the next "Twitter" but at this point I would be okay with Bluesky too. The Meta cancer is already big enough and has too much influence.

This sentiment is so fucking wrong. Please, for god's sake, please understand that Zuckerberg is NOT the lesser of two evils here. Meta facilitated a genocide by artificially promoting hateful content to boost engagement, quietly and without obvious consent performed behavior experiments on its users, and so much fucking more that the two aforementioned points barely even scratch the surface.

You people are trading being punched in the face with being beaten senselessly with a baseball bat.

No, the correct answer is "fuck both of them". You don't need Twitter, you definitely don't need Threads.

You don't even need Mastodon for that matter. You don't need a constant drip feed of dopamine. If you need to stay informed, you can just use news sites or something.

It's definitely not worth it. Zuckerberg is the bigger fish here, at least within the social media domain. Meta's threads replacing Twitter would make them even more powerful than they already are. I don't like Elon, and it's crazy that he somehow managed to make Twitter even worse than it was, but we really don't need Meta to grow even larger.

That's like rooting for Himmler to win because you hate Hitler.

how about both twitter and threads die and the people win?

I want them both to lose. Twitter dying would be in some ways, a victory for the people. But giving zucky more control over people's lives is a horrible idea, especially when you take into account meta's past. But we don't have much say in what happens there, so we gotta learn to fight back.

Threads is banned in Europe which will probably leave a lot of people sad, if you ask me that's the perfect opportunity to advertise mastodon and other fediverse projects to your friends, family, etc. Talk about it on bigger platforms if you still have an account on them, engage with posts and videos about the fediverse and how to use it so we can get them into the algorithm. Every little bit helps, we can do this.

Trading one asshole billionaire for another is a losing game. The only losers are users of these services.

It's like two giant Mecha robots fighting while a crowd of fans of one or the other are cheering on the ground and being squished.

ngl, i'd rather twitter wins since it's imploding already so it will hardly survive for much time after it beats threads down

So here's what we do: we let Threads kill Twitter. Then, when Twitter is dead, we kill Threads.

In the fight against one evil should we really join another evil to do that

Lesser of two evils has never gotten us anything but evil.

No. Meta needs to die.

still don't want zucc to win, tho

Elon is fine in comparison; he's far less of a problem than Meta is.

The platform at this point may as well already be doomed because of people like you.

Really - it's like I'm reading the posts of Reddit manchildren who will forever retain their virginity because they're incapable of understanding how things actually get done.

I guess you can't expect much these days.

What's going to happen next? Meta dominates the platform, you and the rest of your kind "protest", then you fuck off somewhere else and pretend you "won", while sucking each other off only for a repeat to happen sometime later?

Are you going to wear your fedoras?

The worst part is that they will ppv the fight and split the earnings. I personally don't give a shit about this fight but know a ton of people will pay to watch these two fuckwads fight

You don't need either of them and if you feel that you need this kind of site then mastadon will work fine until you figure out that you don't

It's really a choose your poison situation

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

There's a lot of wisdom in that.

I think the funniest part of this whole thing is how Musk insists Meta MUST have poached employees from Twitter, as if Twitter has this revolutionary sauce that just can't be replicated at all.
Bluesky is even closer to Twitter's UI than Threads and I don't see Musk bitching about it at all.

Why use either?

Theres mastodon as a twitter replacement.. lol

I‘d enjoy it if they both lose money/attention and more of it went to the devs and admins of all these instances I like. Unlikely, but I can dream.

but why use threads when you could use mastodon? When threads enters the fediverse it is like the ad free version of threads (from a threads user perspective)

Tbh Elon buying twitter has been a fun ride so far.

As someone who never liked Facebook...not a particular fan if Zucker wins.

On one hand, competition is usually good for the end user.

On the other hand, we have such a better platform for users on the fediverse that I'm not really invested in what either of these weirdos do.

Why? I hate zuck even more. I hope they both crash & burn.

The enemy of my enemy type stuff.

Don't worry, both of them will loose.

Musk > Zuck

Fair enough. Honestly both of them are rather irrelevant to me because I don't use microblogging social media platforms, so I have no stake in the fight.

I genuinely don't understand the elon hate. Meta is essentially US govt social media, why in the fxck would anyone use their garbage?

What has the world come to when people actually think Zuckerberg is the lesser of two evils.

Musk is starting to look like a bit of an asshole, but Zuckerberg is the king of assholes.

Where would the EV market be without Musk buying Tesla? The Prius hybrid would probably still be the most electric thing on the market.

Where would private space exploration without his founding of SpaceX? We would still be waiting for the next US President to cancel their predecessor’s NASA plans and make new plans.

Where would be without Zuckerberg? Probably using a myspace clone with a lot more UI flexibility and crazy banner ads.

Musk put self-driving EV cars on the road and William Shatner in space. Zuckerberg convinced people to give them their data then monetized it and used that knowledge against them.

The sad existence of the Hater.