Yeah I’m having a hard time understanding this entire thread. Like… Is everyone here completely baked?
We touch our belts and then we wash our hands. Just like we touch our dicks AND THEN WE WASH OUR HANDS.
y’all are acting like I should be washing my dick too.
No, there’s no indication that Meta cares about the Fediverse.
This is all just a bunch of hype. Yes, of course we’ll defederate if they try. I think that’s fairly obvious.
Uh, we need participation from everyone in order for the fediverse to have legitimacy. We unfortunately need those cringe users if we want large scale adoption. Without it everything stays small scale, developers aren’t attracted to the concept and people leave for functioning alternatives.
There’s a 90% probability that Threads takes over from the failing Twitter. Nothing will change. No one will learn anything. More of everyone’s data will be stollen.
Thanks for blocking that instance.
I tried to explain to their admin why the entire concept was bad for the fediverse but they didn’t seem to understand.
People can do whatever they want with their instances, but something like that should defederate themselves and live in a void.
That isn’t the way to try and build content or community over here. We have the high ground. We don’t need to stoop down to their level.
Yeah this is a good point.
It took me months to actually start using Lemmy and Mastodon. I would consider myself a tech savvy person and it still took a while getting used too. I think there need to be better tutorials linked on the sign-up pages that help people understand the basic concepts. That would help drive true user acquisition.
The beauty of the fediverse is that the last panel can’t happen.
We control our own instances. There’s no world where admins wouldn’t defederate from any Facebook attempt to barge in.
Maybe a few larger instances sell out, but users hold the power here now. If an admin betrays our trust, we’ll just make a new instance.
And some massive lawsuits to handle.
I have supported Discord with a nitro subscription for as long as I’ve had an account. It’s a terrific program and there’s no reason to expect premium features for nothing in return. The mentality that everything should be free is why we have so many fucking ad driven online business models and I’m over it. I pay for what I use if it’s a good service.