I want to be a good enough friend to encourage my friends to stay away from Meta. I don’t want to enable them.
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Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 years agoThat means you can interact with your friends on threads without using their app and seeing their ads. It’s a big win.
anothermember@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
noddy@beehaw.org 2 years ago
Until meta starts to slowly block small instances and we end up with the next email. Technically federated, but controlled by a few large corporations that dictates the block lists. Let us block them first so we get to define what the fediverse should look like, not them.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 years ago
Then we’re back to ActivityPub as it is now. I hardly see Mastodon people jumping to threads. And governments might prefer having their own instance.
TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 2 years ago
This is what I don't get about the anti-Meta paranoia. Their worst case scenario is... exactly the same as we have now. They can't make every single instance hand them over their whole userbases, that's not how federation works.
I get why they don't like Meta, but I have friends who use Facebook and Instagram, and maybe it would be nice if they could get a taste of the Fediverse experience. We might end up gaining more than Meta.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 years ago
I agree. The best thing we can do is take advantage of their federation by making a significant enough portion of their userbase on the fediverse, to the point that it relies on them. Many currently on the likes of Mastodon would probably rather die than use Threads.