• deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I know there’s a ton of skepticism about Meta entering the fediverse — it’s completely understandable,” Cottle says. “I do want to kind of make a plea that I think everyone on the team has really good intentions. We really want to be a good member of the community and give people the ability to experience what the fediverse is.”

    Your intentions mean exactly nothing when you’re being paid by Zuckerberg.

    It also doesn’t actually matter what you intend, because the problem isn’t just what the platform can do, it’s about Meta being in this space and trying to stake a claim in it. We came here to escape you. Go the fuck away.

    • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Their intentions don’t matter. Meta’s only intention is make line go up. They will either consume or extinguish the fediverse with the rest of the corps. I’ll be leaving lemmy.world the minute thread federates. I’m just gonna be a lazy ass until then.

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      Right? I don’t care what their intentions are, if they continue to house hate groups, their “intentions” count for exactly nothing

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Defederate.

    They can have a corporate silo. They can use an open standard. But they cannot do anything good for the fediverse. The best thing for the fediverse is to let them exist as a walled garden (and we can put up the wall).

    There are about 10 million users on the free fediverse. That number has grown steadily and sustainably. There are 160 million threads users. They were instantaneously leveraged onto the platform by a billion dollar corporation (possibly in violation of antitrust laws).

    If we federate, Threads won’t become a part of the fediverse; threads will become the fediverse.

    EEE

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    8 months ago

    With about a thousand new daily sign ups to mastodon it feels like it is going back to its rapid degrowth that it has been on before the Twitter debacle.