This really needs to be higher.
Running a Mastodon or Lemmy server is surprisingly cheap. With some specific tweaks and rules (esp. hosting images and video elsewhere), it can get even cheaper.
If your only goal is to break even, then it’s amazingly easy. Roughly 1 of every 20 users contributing $1/month. Adjust the numbers as you see fit.
Or a single, non-datamined ad at the top of the page.
Thank you, I hadn’t seen that yet. Assuming it’s true, that’s going to make their claims very hard to prove. It might even get dismissed.
The simple fact that they are former employees is meaningless. This is especially true in California (i.e. where Twitter HQ is, and presumably most of these employees) where non-competes are nearly completely unenforceable. Twitter will have to specifically show that it’s about their internal trade secrets, and not just the general experience they brought from their time at Twitter.
But right now, it’s entirely Twitter doing the talking. We haven’t seen yet how Meta will respond. I predict there is a 0% chance that Threads gets shutdown any time soon.
If you read the actual letter, it seems to paint a slightly different picture. They vaguely order Meta to stop using twitters trade secrets (whatever that may be), and serve notice to preserve communications. That’s fairly normal. But then they have an entire tangent about scraping Twitter’s publicly available data.
Harder to find current and useful numbers than I expected.
According to https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount,
13,213,947 accounts
According to https://me.pcmag.com/en/social-media-1/17992/mastodon-sees-another-surge-in-active-users-following-twitters-rate-limiting,
2,055,502 active users monthly (3,797,695 active users half-year)
Are you applying for a job at Meta? Is that your essay on why they should hire you?
Keep in mind that right now, all of the big names posting are paid content. It’s probably not labeled as such, but they’re all on Meta’s payroll to make the platform attractive to new users. Will it take off? It actually has a decent chance. Not because of anything that they’re doing, but because of exactly how badly Twitter is fucking things up right now. People want out, and most couldn’t/wouldn’t/didn’t make the jump to Mastodon when everything with Musk started. This now looks like a viable alternative to them.
But no, I don’t want Facebook to destroy this beautiful new thing I just found.
I’m not sure why everyone thinks the lawyers would get involved. It doesn’t matter what the guidelines technically say. Reddit has already proven to be extremely untrustworthy regarding their mod policy. If the admins want the mods out, the mods will simply be out.
But it sets a nice precedent/roadmap for the people still there even after the new mods (who have pledged fealty to the king) are installed. Countless people will do this until they get banned, hurting Reddit where it counts.
The numbers are highly skewed because of the launch. A number of users are being paid to create content during the launch. A lot of the users are just checking out the hype. Some will stay, many won’t.
The numbers won’t really be useful or comparable until the dust settles. I give it a month.