• if you want good userbase, never mass migrate from normie platforms where majority of it’s users are trolls, memers, narcissist, corpos, shills, tankies, deranged politic fanatics, and many other terrible things that doesn’t need to spread to more of the internet.

  • doing witch hunts and driving away all the non-normative users because they were deemed undesirable by deranged normie redditors and then defederating entire instances for daring to give agency for free expression to said users was not a great plan

  • federating with threads aka facebook, well that can only go so wrong. It kind of defeats the purpose of fediverse to get away from the whole centralized metaverse. Zuckerberg will obviously scheme a plan to take over the fediverse and centralize it with his metaverse. It is big threat to fediverse.

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 days ago

    For threads to do damage, it would mean having people move off of Mastodon and onto Threads. The vast majority of people on Mastodon hate Meta. I cannot see the harm in federating with Threads.

  • BonerMan@ani.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Nobody can force people to switch, so there is no mass migration.

    Almost nobody federates with threads and they don’t seem to federate anything so it doesn’t actually matter.

    There is no non normie user according to your definition. Lemmy is almost exclusively tankies or things that come close to it and you get hated on for not being what counts as extreme left in the real world in most places. I don’t think you even know what most of the buzzwords you used mean. None of these are normie things.

    The normie Internet user hangs out in his personal Instagram/Facebook/Snapchat/ticktock double. Reddit people aren’t normies, same counts for tumbler, 4chan or Lemmy users. Even Twitter fell out of the normie territory.

    Not a single normie even knows that Lemmy exists and nobody wants to migrate normies anywhere because that’s like getting them to switch from WhatsApp to Signal, impossible without physically forcing them.

  • zoostation@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The passive and undiscerning types (the majority) stayed on reddit and the more ambitious and deliberate types came here. But where would users for this specific format come from if not largely reddit?

  • Sundial@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    It might help justify your viewpoint if you give actual examples. What defederations were you not a fan of? What instances do you not like?

    • sho@ani.socialOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Well as a new lemmy user it wasn’t too hard to figure out what has been defederated for unliked reasons. Im not stating out of just mere personal interest as some might assume, im only highlighting that free expression (artistic values) should not be blantantly treated with oppression just because majority overules a dislike for it. For myself, there are plenty of things i don’t like, but i wouldn’t go out of my way just to deplatform something i didn’t like, only the deranged would do something like that.