And to put the rest in context: #Bluesky and #Flipboard still bring by far the most traffic per follower. #Mastodon is now a little bit behind #Facebook. #Threads and #X bring way, way less.

#SocialMedia

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Another week is over, time for new stats regarding traffic to @heiseonline: It seems like there is a new balance with #Mastodon in front, #Bluesky brings now half as much. Although we stopped posting to #X, it still brings in more than #Threads and roughly as much as #Flipboard.

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@Gargron @mosseri
I don't see this as a good thing. #Facebook, #Threads, #Instagram etc. are highly toxic digital spaces run by billionaires to further their own self-interests. Personally I'd prefer if the #Fediverse could be run as a separate, better alternative to such spaces.

@Nux @Gargron @mosseri

for everyone who appreciates that #meta #threads #facebook is the enemy, go into your settings:

@Gargron @mosseri Interoperability as a general principle is a good thing (and if done on equal and equitable terms), but some of us would much prefer that our posts aren’t accessible by certain networks. Are #Mastodon posts inaccessible by #Threads by default (or would we sadly need to take some sort of definite action to prevent them from being able to access our posts)?

@Gargron @mosseri

eugen it's good news, but only in the scope of championing #activitypub

i don't think when you made #mastodon 8 yrs ago you thought "yes! i get to work with #facebook someday!"

i'm happy you're happy but i step back and see #threads #interop as sad

what you and your team built is amazing and i appreciate all you've done

because it is #decentralized

it's not #centralized #socialmedia hell that is eating our psychology, our societies, our politics

it should stay that way

@mosseri just announced that #Threads users can finally follow fediverse accounts. Which means you can now reach 200M people from your Mastodon account without ever using Threads yourself. True decentralization happens on the fediverse!

Am lucky that I landed here on Mastodon 2 yrs ago instead of #Bluesky or #Threads as they were trying to mimic that dumpster fire place.

I told myself I would not join another corporate social media site from scratch. With no true tech background I figured out how this worked, reached out and found fellow birdsite friends amongst the rubble.

Thank you to @trumpet and team for allowing me to join here on the #scotland instance. (That's another story lol) ❤️

@Gargron @swf
Il ne faut pas s'emballer, l'intention de Eugen Rochko n'est pas d'ouvrir un compte #Facebook ou #Threads à mon avis 😉 Mastodon aussi bien que la Social Web Foundation adhérent aux principes d'un web social ouvert, décentralisé et interopérable, donc je ne vois rien de choquant dans cette annonce. #SWF

This is a smart move by @Mastodon. #Twitter / #X journalism is struggling, and #Threads doesn’t want journalism. Mastodon is leaning into it though, “To reinforce and encourage Mastodon as the go-to place for journalism, we’re launching a new feature today.” I think this is a lever for differentiation; making Mastodon more valuable to journalists and users.