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1. Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 12:15:45 UTC Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   A few days ago I made some predictions about the #Threadiverse and #RedditBlackout:
   https://szmer.info/post/349217

   tl;dr:
   - soon media will discover Lemmy exists
   - they will miss Kbin exists
   - once they eventually notice it, they will be befuddled about it; Kbin will get called a "fork" of Lemmy at some point.
   - more Threadiverse instances will start turning off registrations to deal with the deluge of people joining
   - media will call this "elitist" (as opposed to BlueSky or ClubHouse being…

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   • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 12:16:09 UTC Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

     in reply to

     A lot of media cannot think in any other terms than VC-funded startups chasing hockey-stick growth, and proclaiming them failed the moment that growth slows down.

     #Fediverse in general, and #Threadiverse in particular, are not VC-funded startups. They don't need that hockey-stick growth.

     We're here to build resilient, equitable, safe communities, not to maximize shareholder value. Don't get distracted or disheartened because some people don't get that.

     Some do:
     https://doctorow.medium.com/of-course-mastodon-lost-users-c48ef8102891

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   • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 12:16:10 UTC Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

     in reply to

     …invite-only, that's not "elitist" of course 🙄)
     - "thoughtful" articles show up asking questions about "how will Lemmy monetize", etc; and pointing out that choosing an instance is "confusing".
     - the wave eventually subsides; plenty of people stay on Threadiverse, some don't; this gets reported as "Lemmy has failed".

     We know all this from the #TwitterMigration. Point is, just as "Mastodon" has not failed (it's order of magnitude bigger than before!), Threadiverse will not have failed either.

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     admin de gnusocial.net repeated this.