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I came here specifically to avoid meta and reddit
Same. If Meta isn't chased away, I'm leaving the Fediverse. Once I ripped the reddit bandaid off, my loyalty to any one site evaporated. I won't feel a thing if I need to find somewhere else to go.
If this instance doesn't defederate from Threads, I'm sure plenty of others will. And you can always host your own and lose very little functionality. That's the entire point of the fediverse. Tying your view of the fediverse to one single instance is kind of missing the point.
My concern is the embrace, extend, extinguish method that will ruin the Fediverse regardless of the number of instances, as big tech giants are so adept at doing. I don't have an optimistic outlook here. Meta is here for a reason, and they aren't going to just go away now that their foot is in the door.
I don't see how they can accomplish that though. They can't really bring any value other than lower barrier of entry to users. They're exposed to other instances and everyone can point out what they're giving up when they can literally lose nothing by switching to a different instance.
Everyone read one article on ebrace, extend and extinguish and now they're experts on the subject matter
For all I see is that the biggest threat Threads brings to us is that by federating with them you're going to receive a shit ton of facebook quality content
Fediverse's strength is being able to federate AND defederate as a choice, and the hierarchy flattens down from centralised Big Tech networks enough to the point the instances with big community hold power. EEE cannot do much or any damage, and Meta's foot in the door can be chopped away by instances easily.
The content they will bring is Facebook tier memes and mostly Instagram women audience from what I can see from Threads' adopters. Since Threads has NSFW and brand/influencer promotion prohibited, its adoption in itself is not just questionable, but in my POV, an experiment by Facebook to gauge the reaction of Fediverse's current users towards them.
Yup, all that matters is doomscrolling and shitposts, and we can all get our fill of content without any corporate fuckers fucking this shit the fuck up.
Also, Fuck spez and fuck Reddit.
Save some fucking for Ajit Pai while we're at it.
Gladly, thanks for the reminder.
I would be even more disillusioned and disappointed than I currently am, I will admit it.
But you could just change to whatever instance isn't federated with them. There will be many, I expect.
dude exactly
There are always instances and apps that will block them for you. That's the beauty of interoperability.