I wouldn’t share a tear for Meta’s new plaything, they’re gonna have more users on Threads on the first day than the entire Fediverse combined. Apparently they’re not even linking up yet, it’s still on their to-do list?
It’s a bit disconnected that anybody thinks meta is at all worried.
If anything, anybody wanting to get their instances in front of tons of eyeballs is going to be scrambling to federate (in an attempt to court away meta users)
Damn… I did not know Threads was going to be part of the fediverse. I only just found this unspoiled corner of the internet, I’d like it to stay as is please!
I been gone for 3 days and I missed the drama! Awwww
You're delusional.
The fediverse stuff is just a bullet point on a sales sheet, Facebook doesn't give a shit about federating with Lemmy or Mastodon or whatever.
The reason they don't give a shit is they already have a user base that is multiple times larger than Lemmy and Mastodon combined. Also normal people don't even know what those things are. My mom doesn't know what Mastodon is, she does know what Twitter and threads is.
Which movie is this from? I can't seem to remember it
Narcos, a TV show about the Colombian drug war and Pablo Escobar.
Narcos I think
I think fediverse servers should adopt a set of sustainable limits for themselves, one of which should be: do not maintain more than X active users. If they have over that amount, they should shut down signups. If they don't shut down signups, everyone else should defederate them until they cooperate.
This is a really good idea. Maybe someone can make a site called “Too powerful” that lists the bloated instances or something.
However: I’m not super deep into lemmy architecture, but what would stop the instance ops from creating a “sister instance” the the same rules and owners?
I think that should be considered willful subversion of the fediverse "tenates" which wouldn't be condoned. Sure, people could always do it in secret, but if they were ever exposed it would be grounds for defederation.
Designing said tenates would take lots of open discussion from the community, but I do think it is important if we're going to maintain a working fediverse. Corporations like Google and msft have embraced/extended/extinguished open platforms in the past, and it looks like meta is trying the same thing again. If we say "the platform is open, everything is allowed, anyone is welcome, the fediverse will sort itself out" then it will inevitably be dismantled by organized attacks on the platform.
The fediverse is both the technical architecture, and the decentralized culture of the people using it.
Oh man, this is genuinely depressing. I just checked it out for the first time and almost every thread I see is "omg this is so much better than twitter" "Guess we're all on threads now?" and just complete lack of awareness of the fediverse at all, and I'm just sitting here like "the fediverse has been better than twitter...and facebook....and instagram... and reddit.... for a long time now....." but everyone is just gonna throw flowers at Facebook for making a hackneyed handicapped version of it and there's nothing we can do.
This time next year everywhere you see little social media buttons and links the threads symbol will be there by default and people will still have no idea about Lemmy or Mastadon. I'm gonna try really hard to focus on how much of a good thing that is because of its lessening of the horrors of Eternal September in these spaces.
