Y’all gonna hate me for this, but I’m looking forward to Threads federating.
I don’t enjoy Facebook and find Instagram just OK, but those are the platforms of mom and pop businesses. That is how so many tiny fashion boutiques run by one woman reach out to find customers. It’s helping to get the husband and wife team opening a cafe on their savings their first 100 customers and often the next 100 too.
If you’re going to support indie retail shops, you have to work with Facebook and Instagram. If we can pull them into the Fediverse, it opens up opportunities to involve truly small businesses in the Fediverse instead of always being a wall too high for tech challenged merchants to scale.
