Idle thoughts about #Threads;
• has anyone with a Threads account tried migrating to a different instance? Might be a way to move Threads followers to a “normal" #Fediverse account (I do not expect this to be possible; this *is* facebook we're typing about)
• There's been *a lot* of discussion about for to handle Federation with Threads; I think I’ve come around to it as a possible way to encourage Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Threads users to migrate to other servers.
There's no way the existing #Fediverse infrastructure could survive 100 million users showing up in ten days, so I think the best approach is to work away at them, encouraging them to migrate to "freedom”.
Well, this is a bit more complex because scaling in ActivityPub is mainly based on number of instances, not number of users.
A post shared with 10 or 100 users on a single instance really takes about the same amount of processing, as opposed to the same users on 100 different instances, each instance having to be contacted individually to broadcast the post.
Presumably Meta would set up its service as either one or at least the minimal number of instances, so the scaling wouldn't be as unworkable.
