Centralization. Meta will develop the fediverse protocol up with their own specific enhancements, locking most of us onto their version of the platform due to convenience given enough time. (Think RCS as an example, it’s technically an open standard but Google has effective control of it thanks to special features)

You might say “Well, if they are a better platform, so what, why not go there”, but the problem is that they can cut off the rest of the fediverse as “outdated” essentially privatizing everybody.

Yes.

Yep, especially for young people in the United States.

People have become so attached to “one place only for everything” that something as simple as blue/green bubbles (and associated service differences) will be enough to isolate.

The messiah of maximal convenience makes differentiation harder and harder for everyone.

(And for everyone who says “Everyone here just uses Telegram/Whatsapp/QQ/Line, not a problem over here!”, guess what, you’re still probably gonna be exclusionary to other services just like the blue/green folks. It just doesn’t happen to affect you.)

Good. Hell, once the user-instance blocking thing comes out, give people a list and instructions to block those political instances, porn ones, etc. etc. I always like it to be on the user level, rather than some over-arching force telling me what I can and can’t view. Freedom to make the decision for yourself should be a large priority.

I would have preferred to have a no-defederation policy (except for maybe threads due to EEE fears), but as long as it is not swung around constantly, I am okay with it.

The two that are blocked are political circlejerks that I personally dislike anyways. I am hopeful there is not more.

Man this year has just been a total collapse of everything:

character,ai filtrations

GPT slowly being neutered thanks to societal concerns

Twitter being fucked by Mr. Elon “I know everything” Musk

Imgur cleaning house for no reason

Reddit dropping a nuke on 3rd Party apps

Netflix killing password sharing

Youtube feeling in to kill adblockers

-and now gfycat is about to collapse entirely.

What the actual fuck?