Russell Coker via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
>Firstly a disclaimer, I dislike Facebook for many reasons and would prefer it
>if the company went bankrupt and shut down. But as that's not going to happen
>and there's an estimated 17.7 million Facebook users in Australia (almost 2/3
>of the population) we have to deal with that.
Thank you - I didn't appreciate that Facebook was still so prevalent. I
don't have an account there, and I don't plan to obtain one at this
point, unless there's a good professional reason.
Threads federates with ActivityPub, so you may be able to post to that
from a Mastodon, Pleroma or GoToSocial instance without having an
account. As I understand it, though, Threads is entirely separate from
Facebook, though owned by the same company.
Threads is Meta's answer to X/Twitter, is text based and linked to an Instagram account.
Here's a short comparison.
Threads - real-time text & public dialogue, FB - Social networking, family/friends
Threads - linked to Instagram, FB - independent account
Threads - text-heavy, short-form content, FB - Mixed (Multimedia, Text, Long-form) content
Threads - Public/Open, FB - Friends/Family/Groups
Threads - minimal ads, FB - highly developed (effing annoying) advertising