Because a lot of the new traffic is really less passionate about fediverse, and more passionate about getting away from Reddit and Twitter. Plus the friends/communities people will make that come from that group.

You’re thinking too short-term and not after things have started to reach some normalcy again. And also that Meta is specifically trying to get in now while those communities are trying to form.

Not if their communities and friends leave for threads.net because by the time the defederate occurs most of the communities either are on threads.net or have threads.net equivilants.

You can’t have a community without the community part of it.

Except Meta by it’s nature will aim towards Centralization. They’re contradictive to the concept. It doesn’t even take much thought to see the issue here.

Also as app_priori pointed out, Almost every instance already has a list of defederated instances.

I’d argue a mix of policies is the best outcome. Despite the praise of Capitalism, every modern country employs both capitalist and socialist policies.

Idolizing these structures is problematic because unregulated they tend to spiral out of control, since at the end of the day they’re man-made economic policies, and self-regulation isn’t something most people do easily without consequence.

Isn’t this essentially a red herring?

Yes, it is a true fact, but it’s ignoring 200 years of history, much of with has nothing to do with the economic model.

Plus most arguments are made in regards to more recent changes in lifestyle, where the same amount of wealth isn’t providing the same amount of reward.

Hell 200 years ago is also ignoring The Great Depression, which was certainly not a good time for capitalism (or well, anyone)