The Twitter Revolution? How Meta’s Threads Thwarts the Musk Mafia
Can Threads, Meta’s latest Twitter usurper, actually supplant Elon Musk’s chaotic regime and offer a more harmonious haven for free speech? The experiment of rebranding Twitter as a mere adjunct to Musk’s ego empire continues to play out. Will Threads’ more collaborative vibe and commitment to decorum prevail?
An Underwhelming Experience
Threads didn’t exactly burst onto the scene like a phoenix from the digital flames of Twitter’s infernal struggles. It started as a clunky, bare-bones competitor to X, with a user count measured in mere millions rather than the tens of millions of eyeballs X still commands.
What difference did it make? For instance, how many people will continue to join Threads simply because Instagram founder Adam Mosseri isn’t a lunatic obsessed with proving the existence of godless AI entities?
In just one year, Threads has miraculously managed to eke out over 175 million users, despite most existing Twitter users having to reconcile themselves to a vastly different brand ecosystem. It’s almost as if Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg had a masterplan…
Federation Forever (Or at Least Forever?)
ActivityPub enthusiasts won’t have to wait an eternity for a decentralized rival that, at the very least, supports their values. Twitter can go ahead and implement ActivityPub’s 2.0 version anytime (or whenever the last straw breaks, figuratively), and Threads will only welcome it with open arms.
Not quite. While the odds lean toward Twitter eventually assimilating the protocol, for how long can this cat and mouse game persist? It only goes to show how far beyond petty squabbles we really should be looking…
A potential Achilles’ heel lies here – not only will Thread remain fragmented and unable to disentangle the chaotic content stream – but it may struggle on.
Meta’s Mithryl and the Locus of Control
In his eagerness to "fix" his latest social media venture (by rebranding it Thread-some?), Mosseri (and Zuckerberg) may already realize that X has become… and that Meta’s influence remains confined to Instagram and FB rather than spreading across borders in a quest for homoeostasis.
Will "more" threads ever ensnare a larger "society"? Can the remaining power brokers be persuaded…
Time will tell, and only further will make the truth.
Author: Kayitsi.com
