Step 1: don’t tell the whole internet that you’re trying to create a torrent site.

I’m all for shitting on big corporations but the fact that they wanted to create a platform based on activitypub is interesting.

Adam Mosseri seems to have good intentions with Threads (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-fork/id1528594034?i=1000619512224). But Zuck/Meta is most likely going to derail that at some point.

I honestly don’t care for Threads in the long run. My only hope is to follow some people on Threads from a different Mastodon instance. Whatever else they want to do, I don’t care about.

People should be skeptical but competition to Twitter is good. And even better if that product is built on the Fediverse.

Your first point is an "initial limitation".

Your second point:" This is presumably due to most fediverse services not yet supporting reply restrictions."

Not sure why you are using select quotes without giving the full context to make a point that is actually not there.

At least the promise with Threads is that you can move your account and who you follow to a different Mastodon instance in the future.

Fediverse has a lot of them too

I definitely don't need more reasons to eat more cheese.

I think one of the biggest issues that Reddit has with third party apps is that they don’t have control over the user experience.

I think Reddit is experimenting a lot with their app to see what works and doesn’t work to get new users engaged. Note that I said new users. Reddit doesn’t care about old users. They only care about growing and getting new users engaged.

Reddit implemented features like community chat, community voice/talk spaces, subreddit suggestions, NFTs etc.

I think it’s harder for Reddit to keep experimenting and seeing what sticks when 3rd party apps won’t or don’t implement those features.

So yeah, bottom line is, Reddit wants more control and Reddit wants new users that are engaged.

I understand why they do it. I don’t agree with how they went about it. I’m mostly upset that they think 3rd party apps are riding on Reddits succes when Reddit itself is riding on free user content/moderation/voting. It’s our content and we should be able to consume it the way we want to.

Arcade Fire saved me from religion and now speaks to me on a religious level. M83 speaks to me on a celestial level. Both have deepened my love for music.

ContraPoints rules!

I use Bitwarden (I know opinions are split when it comes to passwords and 2FA being in separate apps). But I like the convenience of it all being in one platform.

I also like Raivo, you can import/export them too.

Yeah, I definitely agree with that rule.

I have several friends that work at Reddit and from what I gather they ran all the numbers and determined that most mods use old.reddit and not 3P apps. So Reddit did their calculations and they have determined they will make more money in the long run by steering people to their new app. They know Reddit drama always seems bigger than it is and will blow over in a month. They know they will lose some users but they think the majority will stay, including mods and content creators.

I definitely understand why they made all these decisions from a business perspective but holy shit was this poorly handled by Spez. I think they could've given developers a longer shutdown period and they could've handled PR way better + the whole Christian (Apollo) debacle also didn't help.

Honestly, there won’t be a mass exodus and Reddit will live on. I’m sure a bunch of users will flock to other platforms but in the long run Reddit only care about people that are already using their new UI and their new app. And those users won’t be leaving.

Regardless whether Reddit survives or not I am glad I found this space and excited for the future of Lemmy/Fediverse.