Blaine Cook on Threads bootstrapping from Instagram. I’ve seen a couple variations of this from other folks too:

Threads is blowing up because Facebook is using their monopoly on the social graph. Legislation to guarantee easy, fast access to your own contact lists for use in non-billionaire-owned media would help level the playing field, because Zuck & co sure aren’t going to give the connections they stole back to us otherwise.

Ignoring fairness, it would’ve been more interesting if Threads had started from scratch, even just as a comparison with e.g. Mastodon stats.

@manton Let's judge them on facts: Adam Moserri says here that one will be able to take its followers elsewhere. This would be the biggest push for the Social Web anyone could dream of!

https://overcast.fm/+m_rpwbmMQ

@myrmidon Yeah, I thought that was a great interview. After listening to it and other quotes, I’ll be surprised if they don’t do ActivityPub. But my expectations are low for other things, like I don’t expect an open posting API.

@manton If course they won’t (open API); these days are gone. That's why we need the Social Web to succeed. ActivityPub means they will try to do an incredible product to keep their users.

@pratik and 60% bigger than WordPress — something is afoot

@pratik @JohnPhilpin It’s accurate, not counting folks who have disabled ActivityPub. Many of those accounts are not being used anymore, though.

…. and substantially higher than WordPress … go @manton