Dan Hon (@danhon@dan.mastohon.com) (Mastohon)
Everyone* is going to be there, they did the work so the Brands were there on day one being all Brand-y, all the influencers and Creators are there, plus there are enough early 21st century mall cops around so the Nazis aren't *too* visible. It'll be packed and Elon is fucked. The amount of prep work Meta must've done to get all those blue checks lined up on day one, they know how to run their advertising businesses.

Very simply, the response about Threads from @Gargron is impossibly naive. It assumes good faith interactions with a company that routinely demonstrates, and often flaunts it’s lack of ethics. There is no universe in which Mastodon gets Threads content for free. Either they’re going to find a way to monetize Mastodons userbase or they’re not going to implement interoperability.

You don’t build a milk empire by letting everyone have free access to the cows.

—@GrayGooGirl