this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
818 points (97.8% liked)

Technology

59308 readers
4864 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
818
Mastodon's official stance on Threads (blog.joinmastodon.org)
submitted 1 year ago by brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
279 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] McBinary@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Because decentralized social networks don't need to be profitable. That's the whole point of this. Spread out, smaller instances, there is absolutely no need to for an instance to become so massive that it requires profitability to continue.