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@chrismessina I'd really doubt that

@maxdo why do you say that?

@chrismessina I think Elon deprecated the block feature because people where blocking blue-badgers as a protest. Reminds me a bit when china bans white paper because people were using white paper to say nothing as a protest. So we are seeing where this is going with the one supreme ruler ethos etc.

@sentry_co Here it’s a choice between Elon and Zuckerberg, both of them making solo decisions for the platforms. Either one you choose isn’t great, Zuckerberg has a worse history.

@chrismessina On my opinion block isn’t a big feature to give up the platform for, Threads had a good marketing campaign and growth initially but most people haven’t got to stick to it. If you switch to threads, you’re changing one platform with a super rich CEO to another platform with also a super rich CEO.

@maxdo on the contrary: it looks like a highly usable minimalistic interface modern product. Ready to spread its wings. With a virtually zero level of toxicity. A pleasure to use.

@paulbalogh_line21 Interesting opinion but I don’t think it reflects reality, for this kind of app there’s nothing to use, it’s made to consume information content creators share and I think it’s a matter of time before they start showing ads there if it’ll still be alive.

@maxdo so you are not talking about "Threads" you are talking about "this kind of app". What kind? Twitter-like? (i.e. social media based on ads)? Of course they will show some ads in the future, but Twitter sorely needed competition. Now they have it.

@paulbalogh_line21 This kind - centralized.

@maxdo I am on Mastodon, nowhere near Threads in terms of quality or engagement. Sorry to say that.

@omergulenn rolling out this week.

@chrismessina oh okay, thanks for the clarification! 🙌

@lucas_pilzen I read that that is expected to take "months" so... probably not this week, unfortunately :(

@cyriljeet which region are you in?