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Will the Mastodon and Lemmy instances we have today cease to exist because of Threads federating?
I'm just genuinely curious how we could be worse off than before.
From a previous comment of mine:
To be clear, I want it to be users deciding on Lemmy too. Also, people already here moving to threads wouldn't be the problem, we're small in comparison to them. It would be a few things:
It doesn't benefit them to send adds disguised because they are paid to provide ad impressions which they wouldn't have data for. It's just an annoying business model not a conspiracy to brainwash you.
Nah, companies did it on reddit all the time, it's a thing.
That's why you need Nord VPN so you can play raid shadow legends safely...
The thing is they have so much less control if they do that, I'm fed up of places with adverts where comments are turned off or heavily moderate - if their post comes here they can't do any of that, I say we let them come, we let them come and then we smash them
They may be overwhelmed by visitors from Threads and then Meta pulls out and they'll all leave.
People who would register on normal instances or threads would only use Threads because of being lazy and then be lazy after Meta pulls out.
Isn't this already the case? I find it unlikely for someone to find Lemmy without having developed a dislike for platforms owned by big corpos.
... And then they can use it through Threads, and over time forget something and move to Threads, and then oops. Such things happen. Humans are not principle-driven nor should they be.
I think you misunderstood me. I'm saying that whenever someone finds out about Lemmy, it's because they've already sworn off Facebook, Reddit and other big platforms.
Do you think such a person will go back to a Facebook-owned platform just because it happens to federate?
You do get tired of being sworn off. You come back to try them if it's easy.
You don't seem to be like me.
If they become overwhelming, admins can defed same as anywhere else. But whats the argument for doing so preemptively?
I'm fairly new to the fediverse, but I see it this way. If Threads integrates with the Fediverse then users will become accustomed to the content from Threads, which could cause more friction in the future if there's a movement to defederate from Threads. I think it would just be easier to avoid all that in the first place. I also feel like if anyone really wants to see Threads content they could make an account there, and then everyone gets what they want. Then there's all the downsides others are theorizing could happen, but they can't be comfirmed until Threads actually joins the Fediverse.
You say this as if people haven't been eloquently arguing for defederating from Threads preemptively since motherfucking APRIL.
No haha I know I just have yet to hear why it would help
Your inability to read (or possibly think, not sure which) is a you problem, not a me problem.