• youthinkyouknowme
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    161 year ago

    They’d probably attract more people (even people that are here right now) before doing so. Thus creating another centralized platform.

    • @okiokbar@lemm.ee
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      01 year ago

      If the Threads product was so superior, and Mastodon so unable to respond that millions would leave Mastodon - sure. I doubt it though…

      • @catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca
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        111 year ago

        You’re severely underestimating the budget Meta can throw at this. Mastodon/Lemmy/etc. right now are largely volunteer-run as opposed to full-time employees.

        • @okiokbar@lemm.ee
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          81 year ago

          That argument suggests open source products couldn’t possibly compete with a closed-source alternative.

          • Marxine
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            61 year ago

            They can compete of they have the manpower to do so. Lemmy has literally only 2 devs. How many devs can Meta pay to work on Threads and outpace it?

              • Marxine
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                11 year ago

                But they can easily implement Lemmy-like features on it or make another sister-app. It isn’t hard to bruteforce such things when you have that much money and developers

      • youthinkyouknowme
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        91 year ago

        I wouldn’t underestimate them though. After all, they own some of the biggest social network platforms on the globe and have the formula to hook people up down to a t.