I think youâre conflating a couple things here.
Firstly, the notion that Lemmings are xenophobic is false. While thereâs evidence to support this claim, on closer inspection youâll see the issue isnât about embracing new platforms, but the type of platforms. This attitude goes beyond the Threadiverse and is in fact one of the fundamental attitudes of the fediverse, as exhibited with corporate instances getting fediblocked on mastodon.
To suggest that everyone is petty because theyâre not embracing corporations is a giant stretch.
Counter to the outright lie thatâs being peddled here is the excitement about NodeBB and its ActivityPub implementation.
Secondly, people hate Facebook and rightfully so.
anothermember@lemmy.zip â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
No, especially when someone joins that we donât like. The ability to defederate is the freedom that comes with decentralisation. If there were no bad actors decentralisation wouldnât be so important.
Kichae@lemmy.ca â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
This.
Thereâs no âfediverseâ to join. Itâs not an actual place with boundaries and codified rules, beyond those imposed by the communication protocol.
Itâs a free association content sharing network, and free association includes the freedom to not associate.
BarryZuckerkorn@beehaw.org â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where the aliens campaign for the US presidency, and canât figure out why âabortions for allâ and âabortions for noneâ are both unpopular opinions.
In other words, itâs about freedom of choice, not mandatory association.
TwilightVulpine@kbin.social â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
Absolutely. The Fediverse has some gross ass places I don't want to touch with a 10-foot pole.