Mastodon News

Other

X

Threads

Bluesky

Mastodon

Substack Notes

None of the above

Twitter still biggest social media of it's kind

Bluesky

Threads

Twitter much smaller but nothing bigger than it

Mastodon

Substack Notes

Chinese twitter clone

NO

AT protocol (Bluesky)

ActivityPub (Mastodon)

Other

Other, not launched before 2024

Forums and/or BBSes make a huge comeback

Other, launched before 2024

Threads

Farcaster

Nostr

Bluesky

Hive (hive.blog)

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

cohost

Discord

Tumblr

Other

X / Twitter

Threads

Bluesky

Nostr

Truth Social

Above 700,000

Above 800,000

Above 900,000

Above 1,000,000

X

Tumblr

Instagram

Other

Threads

Bluesky

Facebook

Truth Social

YES

YES

YES

Twitter

Other

Mastodon

OpenAI

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