Author finding this thread very late! This is one of the better responses I’ve found. It doesn’t seem likely to me that many people will think Mastodon is just on Threads, but your counterexample about Spotify and podcasts doesn’t seem likely to me either — yet I know it’s true. So it’s definitely something to think about!

I guess the flip side, though, is figuring out just how podcasts and their infrastructure have been affected. They’re still out there, still open, and over the last year, Spotify has been pulling back from investing in podcasts and making more of their previously Spotify-exclusive shows fully open again. I have no idea if there’s any analogy to make from that to Threads.