What will it take for the #Fediverse to kill #Twitter?
@realcaseyrollins
Do people use Twitter socially anymore? I don't think so, not on the scale they used to anyway.
@Coomer I'm not sure that we're seeing droves of users leave #Twitter and join the #Fediverse AND stay active consistently tho. Are we?
@realcaseyrollins
No, they've mostly gone to other proprietary sites. A mainstream site is going to have to adopt ActivityPub for Fedi to get really mainstream (which Jack actually has talked about as a possibility before with Twitter)
@realcaseyrollins
There are signs though. Twitter's new redesign looks a lot like the simple Masto interface, Twitter is implementing scopes. They're at least aware of Mastodon.
@Coomer Yeah but what's the point if half the #fediverse blocks it
@realcaseyrollins
They're already moving to an open standard, probably to mitigate hosting costs while increasing reach. Twitter's also a lot different than Gab, the scale and type of users are incomparable. I don't think any instance would defederate from them, the opposite is more likely, they defederate from our corner of Fedi.
@Coomer I only compared the two because #Gab had so many users compared to the #fediverse at large (they had at least a million users at the time IIRC), so it has sort of a similar case of a (relatively) big social networking site just popping into the #Fediverse and flooding it with new users. The scale is certainly different but some reactions to it should provide at least some precident.
