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I would compare Mastodon with Threads to Linux with the Wine compatibility layer.

People used to hold off on using Linux, because they did not want to lose their Windows software. Now with Wine, people are a lot less reliant on Windows and many Linux users and Microsoft competitors profit from this.

The Steam Machine was reliant on native Linux games, but almost nobody wanted to develop for a niche desktop OS, which led to less games on the platform, which made Linux even more niche for gamers ....

That's a big reason the Steam Machine failed.

The Steam Deck side-steps all of this with Wine. Now Linux can grow freely, even when developers ignore Linux completely. Wine gives Linux a fighting chance against Windows.

The same way I believe, that Mastodon will only get a fighting chance, if they can side-step the "nobody I know uses Mastodon" problem. Federation with Threads could be one solution to this.

Threads seems to be a half-done, half-assed platform in many aspects really.

What do you think could dethrone it?

Same thing happened with Mastodon to an extent. Twitter migrants want a platform that is at least as "good" as Twitter.

Mastodon has at least as many features as Twitter, but almost no important users to follow.

Threads has a lot more important users, but far less features than Twitter.

Though Mastodon's key advantage over Threads, is the fact that people are more willing to "believe" in the Mastodon project. Mastodon had no high-profile controversy yet. It is FOSS, the people are friendly and it is slowly growing organically with a few growth spurts here and there.

Meta Threads has the same image problems as Twitter. Zucc and Musk are probably equally controversial figures. I imagine people mostly joined Threads because of FOMO and group-think. There is no reason for most of them to use it over Twitter.

In the end tho, I don't see Twitter being de-throned by either of these platforms.

Connect is great, because you can use it to block posts with certain keywords automatically.

Besides that, wefwef.app is my favorite. You can really tell, that the devs there put a lot of passion into this.

Hyperloop is such a hot mess. Everyone talks about something different, when they mention Hyperloop. There is no consensus among pro-Hyperloop and anti-Hyperloop people, what this project even would look like from a barebones conceptual perspective.

In my eyes governments see Hyperloop as some kind of prestige project. All big governments invest in it, otherwise you are not modern. America, EU, China, Arab oil states and India.

Somehow "Hyperloop" has become a political buzzword, just like "Smart City" or "Green City". Everyone claims to build those, everyone invests in those, but they all seem to be fantasy products, that go nowhere.

Every automated migrator would need your password naturally.

sub.rehab also looks for replacement communities through a multireddit link. No password needed for that one, but you have to subscribe to each replacement manually.

You could make seperate accounts for different topics. Like make one account for memes, one for technology, one for news/politics, one for educational purposes etc etc.

Pretty much every Lemmy app lets you login with multiple accounts at once. Wefwef does that too, if you prefer websites over native apps.

That makes seperating your feeds a more clean experience. That's how I do it for Youtube example.

If I open Youtube, because I want to listen to music in the background, I don't want to get distracted by memes, news, vlogs, gaming stuff etc. That's why I log in with my Music account where I only subscribe to musicians. This gives me a clean feed and the algorithm works in my favor to keep me at the topic at hand.

Fools, we at Meta always know were you are. Our trackers are more powerful than your VPNs.

It's hard to remember song names, because most EDM tracks are non-lyrical.

For example in dubstep, most trends age poorly.

Skrillex- inspired stuff or "Zomboy - Terror Squad" copycats sound really oversaturated nowadays. Even "hip and cool" commercials made some bootleg versions of "Ruffneck Bass" and "Equinox" from Skrillex.

Also samples and sound design from many EDM tracks 10+ years ago feel really unoriginal from a modern listener's perspective.

There are obviously also a lot of exeptions. Old stuff from "Tha Trickaz", "Savant", "Xilent" etc etc all still hold up imo.

Outside of modern EDM subgenres I think most Eurobeat, old Disco, Techno and House stuff don't sound as exciting and crazy as they did back then.