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Osborn predicts Bluesky will grow and achieve lasting traction within three years
“I would bet so. Like I could be wrong, but it feels like in terms of the herd instinct of folks and the herd instinct of tech press and whatnot, there's more now than there was when Mastodon and Threads and everything else launched a few years ago, including B…”
Truth Social Built Its Initial Platform by Forking the Mastodon Codebase
“And then they bring on this, like, remote software engineer from Macedonia, and they're basically forking Mastodon.”
Walling: Mastodon will definitely not succeed as a Twitter replacement
“The Mastodon is not it. This is just not going to happen. There's just no way.”
Threads gains an advantage as ideological extremes self-select out
“All people who think that Elon Musk is brilliant, and if you point out that any particular problem or mention him in anything but less than sycophantic terms, they're all going to stay, they're not going to go to Threads. All the Nazis are going to go, I'll st…”
Sacks: Mastodon does not have nearly the distribution of Twitter
“And anybody who's thinking about going to like some knockoff like Mastodon or something is gonna have to contend with the fact that it doesn't have nearly the distribution.”
Calacanis: Peer-to-peer platforms like Mastodon will emerge and prove unbannable
“There is master Don and plenty of other peer to peer software that will be deployed, I predict, and that will put up a competition now for these services, and it will be impossible to ban those peer to peer platforms.”