Mastodon News

Twitter still biggest social media of it's kind

Bluesky

Threads

Twitter much smaller but nothing bigger than it

Mastodon

Chinese twitter clone

Paradigm shift (eg twitter energy moves to tiktok/vr and not on twitter)

None of the above

NO

AT protocol (Bluesky)

ActivityPub (Mastodon)

Nostr

Other

Farcaster

Bluesky

Other, not launched before 2024

Hive (hive.blog)

Mana-channel (Manifold, if we ever do it)

cohost

Discord

Tumblr

Forums and/or BBSes make a huge comeback

Other, launched before 2024

RSS

X / Twitter

Bluesky

Other

Threads

Truth Social

Nostr

YES

YES

YES

Manifold

Reddit

Effective Altruism Forum / LessWrong

Soundcloud / Spotify

DeviantArt / ArtStation

Substack / a personal website

Xitter / Mastodon / Bluesky

Facebook / Instagram / Threads

YouTube / TikTok

Twitter

Other

Mastodon

OpenAI

X

Instagram

Other

Tumblr

Threads

Bluesky

Facebook

Truth Social

Bluesky

Mastodon

Other

A portion of Fediverse nodes block Threads, either a portion of a particular type of platform such as Mastodon, or certain types of platforms become open to Threads, just on their own, with little intervention from Threads, it just happens

Meta starts funding Fediverse nodes and maintainers via grants, pays to maintain servers in exchange for not blocking Threads/Meta.

Complete, all-out pitch battle in which large portion of Fediverse protocols and nodes absolutely unify against blocking Threads and anything that smells of Meta.

Threads users complain about unsavory Fediverse content leaking in. Non-Threads content is ultimately blocked for most practical purposes, and the integration feature atrophies.

There’s more of a virtue signaling about blocking Threads across the Fediverse, but little actual action. The actual cost of Fediverse users actually preventing Threads from engaging in nodes just far outweighs the perceived threat.

Meta does like spoofing users which are actually just straight up Meta bots that crawl nodes and hoovering up user data. They use their high end programming resources to just crush any resistance through subterfuge.

Meta Entryism, they pay users, influencers, prominent individuals, either above board or below or both, to constantly post propaganda bout how Meta is a changed man and anyone who is against them is against the Fediverse and anything it sta