From what I found, a lot of the people who join Threads, wouldn’t have even looked into joining the Fediverse in the first place. If anything, Threads is bringing the concept of the Fediverse to more people and some of those people may find that Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse could be what they prefer, especially if you can still talk with your family and friends on here.

Threads are stuck behind dealing with their investors as we can push the Fediverse with new updates all the time

It’s a similar dream I have. People need to jump ship and go towards the Alternatives.

Yeah, Just don’t post something you’ll regret, it’s called Accountability.

Easier to get fediverse users on there over everyone else from what I’ve found. People can be stubborn

Currently no, but protocols and things are being worked on including one by the PixelFed creator called Sup!. Maybe one day we will have a good messaging system between the fediverse.

The easiest thing to use what isn’t decentralised but is secure would be Signal for the moment. Especially as they rolled out usernames instead of using your phone number

I know I’d at least like all my contacts using the fediverse as I hate having to switch apps to see what people are up to.

Isn’t most websites?

Threads is instagrams version of mastodon / twitter. Even know you can login with instagram it does bring it mainstream

That might take a while with all 2 million of them lol

Yeah, well, at least it’s said to have that many active users but logging in once in a month to check 1 post. So less than 10 seconds on the website / app counts as active.

I’m sure it’s slightly inflated. Hopefully indie developers and other smaller public figures come across.

As of last November 2 Million users. What compared to the rest of the Fediverse that’s very few.

https://mashable.com/article/bluesky-2-million-users-public-interface

There’s plenty of Celebs & public figures using Bluesky, as that’s how they started growing their platform originally.

There’s also Threads that have more Celebs & public figures including Bill Gates. So I guess Threads might be the way they will publicly get in on the Fediverse. That’s when they actually fully flesh their ActivityPub stuff and publicly release it.

Yes, ActivityPub 2.0 is working on that from what I can see. It would be really cool to see how that turns out. Bluesky’s not using the same protocols though, so unsure how they are going to fix with all of that.

Would it be best for Bluesky to then take all the celebs & public figures and work out a bridge between protocols, making it hopefully possible to see their stuff on Mastodon and other places?

As users can then choose if they want to use Mastodon or another alternative like Bluesky.

Yeah people like that would help greatly even if it’s just for the Reddit like experience they used to get where users can just post to you as a creator

Yeah it would just be nice to have some more niche communities being run. Maybe I should help start those niche communities or something but I’m not really using Lemmy anymore but still love browsing the content

Yes I’ll stay active in as many places as I can on here especially when I know a topic. Even better now I’ve worked out a way to interact with people on Lemmy through Mastodon

Hopefully people will as I hate switching between different platforms and it’s one of the reasons I enjoy the fediverse

So Threads? That’s getting progress on coming to the Fediverse. Guess we would have lots more people join through that.

I wouldn’t say it would take more than 20 years. People are already annoyed with how much social media they have to move between, as well as the data collecting and adverts they get.

It’s that or if some of these bigger creators, stars or business’ move across to the Fediverse as their way of communication, then that would increase the user base.