Why would their existing communities and friends leave for threads.net if they are on Mastodon to begin with? Most fediverse users I find seem to be pretty passionate about the platform, I doubt they will leave just because their friends are on Threads.
Exactly. Which is why I believe that all this fearmongering is because of Meta’s reputation (rightfully so) rather than because Meta actually has a plan to destroy the fediverse. And it’s not the like the fediverse can be actually destroyed, people can always start new instances at any time.
I think that article is mostly fearmongering.
Most people using Mastodon right now are not following mainstream people on their feeds - they are mostly following like-minded people who have made the switch from Twitter. If their server decides to federate with Meta, it will actually improve their experience because they can start following mainstream people from the comfort of their Mastodon feed. And if Meta decides to break ActivityPub (which I doubt), it will be back to the original status quo for most users.
And most mainstream people will not be signing up for Mastodon anyways, they will be signing up for Threads/Blue Sky.
I mean wouldn’t that be not a bad thing? The people who don’t want to federate will be left in their own community with their posts/content intact.
I don’t think so. How would they kill the fediverse? Like there will still many communities that will not federate with Meta and still continue to operate as usual.
Ever heard of Mastodon blocklists? I mean defederation has been happening for a while.
But I think that’s fine. Instances should have every right to block instances that they disagree with.
You can already donate to the people operating this instance. No subscriptions needed, just donate away.
Just because something’s not corporate owned doesn’t mean bad actors can come onto this platform. I’ve seen some unsavory people here already.
That’s because Mastodon is a federated Twitter clone. If you never used Twitter to begin with (which is really for professionals/celebrities/famous people to put out public messages to people), then you won’t get it. Most people don’t need to use Twitter or anything like it.
I don’t use Twitter, so no. But normies will finally have a potentially credible Twitter replacement that’s open to the public, so good for them.
Yeah hopefully we get past the shitpost/meme stage which seems to be taking over here right now.
Well, bugs and UI aside, it seems like Lemmy can work but there’s not a lot of substantive discussion right now. The most upvoted stuff are memes and other low effort content. I’m not sure how long a bean meme can sustain serious activity.
I’m going to be a bit meta here, but Lemmy is very circle-jerky right now. Lots of fediverse worship (despite potential flaws regarding governance and centralization of activity on Lemmy.world) and daily beatdowns on Twitter, Reddit, and big tech. The whole Reddit API fiasco happened two weeks ago but people are still bringing in that Internet janitor stuff over here.
I would add that the risk of joining a small server is that the owner can suddenly delete them at any time and you would have to start all over again elsewhere. Best thing to do is to make an account on the large instances only.
Federation is a double-edged sword. Right now, anyone can spin up a Lemmy instance and federate with most other instances by default. Moderation is very important, especially in a federated environment. Otherwise Nazis and tankies will troll and spam and destroy the community we are trying to build. Conservatism is ok, but extremism is not.
Also FYI, be careful posting on Lemmy.ml communities - the people who run it are tankies and will brook no criticism of China or Russia, whether in the context of the war in Ukraine or not.
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