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Meta's Threads twitter competitor is now live... what do you think? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by esty@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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i know the fediverse has been pretty split and a lot of big instances (mainly microblogging and mastodon-like softwares, but some lemmy instances are defederating meta too) but what do you think?

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[–] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's Eembrace, extend, and extinguish (EEE) all over again. It has happen countless times, and will keep happening. I can't believe people still fall for it.

Meta wants to capture the twitter refugees, and they will do the same thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

[–] notme@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

What are examples where companies successfully came to the extinguish phase?

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

A shit product name using a generic commonly used term.

I already fell into misinterpreting a post title about it. So unnecessary.