Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.
Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.
But all the popular communities will be on Threads, every single one of them.
Be it tech news (Nvidia, Amd, PcGaming, Hardware, SelfHosted, Linux, …) or entertainment (Memes, Awww, Movies, Music, IAMA, …) and so on. All the content will be there, because all the users are already there. And if a company like Nvidia decides to join and make official posts, guess which instance they’ll make the account on? Or a celebrity wants to do an IAMA, they’ll also create their account on Threads.
Pretty much everything is corporate nowadays. Sure, a few fringe communities might remain in the fediverse outside of Meta, but they are tiny. And the users will be unhappy too, because 99% of their content just got vaporized when Meta defederates.
I can only see this going wrong in the near future.