These things are not apples and apples.
Mastodon is a grassroots alternative to the ugly silos of commercial social media. It offers baked-in interoperability, decentralization, cooperation and a future that isn’t based on enshittification.
Mastodon is everything Threads/Bluesky is not.
I’ve seen shiny-faced developers from Threads and Bluesky discussing how the future is federated and how they look forward to joining hands with everyone. They really seem sincere, but they are doomed.
Once they’ve built it and dusted their hands, the investors and accountants will pat them on the head, then set the enshittification spiral in motion. It’s already happening.
Dorsey initially seemed to be trying to innovate, but he’s gone. The vulture capitalists are descending because they smell a business-as-usual opportunity to build it, milk it, let it die then move on.
And Threads, well… Zuckerberg.
Don’t be distracted. They are not the Fediverse’s friends.
