Ramin Honary on Nostr: #Threads is #Meta / #Facebook using the old 4-E strategy strategy to destroy ...

#Threads is #Meta / #Facebook using the old 4-E strategy strategy to destroy Mastodon:

Embrace: what they are doing now, launch a competing but compatible service with that of Mastodon. The vast majority of users, most of whom whom don't care about the privacy and intimacy of the Mastodon network will go with the brand with the most name recognition.
Extend: attract users to their centralized network with features search, which they have the resources to do but the rest of the Mastodon network does not. But also include features for tracking and advertising, sell this as a good thing, "a better place to grow your perasonal brand, your business."
Extinguish: after attracting a critical mass of users large enough to decimate the user base of the competing Mastodon network, queitly remove compatibility with the Mastodon network, this will effect only 10% of Mastodon users because the other 90% will be on Threads. ""Who cares if we lose contact with that tiny minority, they should have just Threads anyways, everyone is using it, its easier."
Enshittification: without any real competition, start exploiting users for more and more ad revenue, exploit advertisers with ever-increasing costs.

#Fediblock is the only way to protect our home-grown community from corporate take-over. We built this, now a corporation like Meta/Facebook feels they have the right to exploit it for all its riches until it is destroyed. Don't let it happen.