I think that’s a better question, but it seems like the recent mass of people manually re-building their Twitter graphs in Threads might mean that a precedent has been set. People are demonstrably willing to jump to a new platform and rebuild if things get bad enough.
Knowing this, for me, is enough to relegate decentralization to a much lower-priority feature.
Another variant is “How many people wish they didn’t have to install three different Twitters in order keep up with their friends?”
Someone did a poll on Mastodon recently asking whether people planned to follow Threads accounts when/if they federate. I said yes, because I know some friends joined Threads who didn’t join Mastodon. I’d love to keep in touch with people on Threads or Bluesky (or Twitter!) without having to maintain an account on those platforms.
I would reframe as "how many people wish they could move their followers somewhere else if they got mad at a platform"
I think that’s a better question, but it seems like the recent mass of people manually re-building their Twitter graphs in Threads might mean that a precedent has been set. People are demonstrably willing to jump to a new platform and rebuild if things get bad enough.
Knowing this, for me, is enough to relegate decentralization to a much lower-priority feature.
Another variant is “How many people wish they didn’t have to install three different Twitters in order keep up with their friends?”
Someone did a poll on Mastodon recently asking whether people planned to follow Threads accounts when/if they federate. I said yes, because I know some friends joined Threads who didn’t join Mastodon. I’d love to keep in touch with people on Threads or Bluesky (or Twitter!) without having to maintain an account on those platforms.