The core of the software will be intact, but the community will be broken - because once Threads pulls the plug (EEE), instead of a stable community you'll have a shrinking one.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or from another angle, they won't be able to entirely pull the plug. If they try to but users still want to be on mastodon, they can find another way.

That said, I support the immediate defederation with any threads instances.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They can pull it - most users in Threads will be interacting with other Threads users and content. Mastodon will be simply "that ideologically weird corner", and in practice they won't miss it.

For scale: Threads currently has 100M users. The Fediverse as a whole has 1.5M.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

13+ million total users: https://fediverse.observer/stats

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

I'm counting only monthly active users, for both sides. FediDB lists 1.2M for the Fediverse, your link lists 1.7M of them.