Makeshift

My gut reaction is defensiveness that the fediverse has a different motive, but no. The motive IS the same. Both are fueled by self-preservation.

There IS a difference in circumstance, however. The fediverse has to measure potential gain vs potential risk of working with a greedy rich billionaire.

Twitter is already a giant that’s been going through a lot of abuse and bleeding users. It stands to gain nothing from Meta’ new copycat, only lose even more.

So, Yes. Same motivation for blocking/defederating. The difference between the two is what thy stand to gain vs what they risk losing.

This is something I need to get into my head because I’m shy on the idea of being the one to make communities.

There are niche reddit communities I might still interact with.

But I have a combo of NoScript/adblock/ublock origin hard mode and a cancelled premium making sure they don’t get a penny from me, and I’ll prefer to post any useful info on Lemmy instead.

“Threads” is a new thing and allegedly he intends to have it link to the fediverse.

The thing to worry about is that it is an attempt to get rid of the Fediverse via Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Since Threads is directly tied to Instagram, it may be an attempt to have the majority of fediverse users use Threads, because only Threads is also tied to Instagram. Once having the majority, defederate and keep the majority of the users that couldn’t otherwise be bought.

This is hearsay mind you. I am repeating what I have read. Please feel free to seek more accurate info.

The Tl;dr: Zuck is scared of unbuyable competition and we should NOT welcome his product in.

Side note: I can’t see the word “Threads” like I can Facebook or Twitter. Threads already exist as a term for a certain format, not a social networking service.

I don’t think I added much value to Reddit. I was mostly commenter. My main value was being premium because at the time I was willingly paying for a service I liked. That was canceled when Apollo died.

I do have one or a couple comments that were clearly useful to people, and one that everynow and then gets a ‘Thanks this was helpful’ even years later.

I need to move that comment and any other actually helpful ones to the relevant communities here and edit in links to the new location in the original posts.