Lenny is showing them how well a fediverse can work, so they want to try more social media based on it. Also twitter is a tire fire right now.
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They're sick and tired of Twitter I guess ๐คท.
Twitter rate limiting and broader fediverse awareness.
Twitter got even worse again recently
Cuz reddit and Twitter are going to hell?
Meta's new app Threads plans to federate with the fediverse. They specifically mentioned mastodon. That's probably why.