(Sorry for bad english not my first language)
I am pretty sure most of us can agree on how bad Meta is and for some reason people are defending Meta.
I think many people is not realising how Threads and Federation with Threads is going to harm the development of Fediverse.
EDIT 1: I dont think defederating will much effective after thinking about it. We need a.more effective solution. Also i was a bit aggresive sorry about that
I dont think many people realize how Threads itself is going to harm fediverse. After twitters well known series dumb moves, many people saw this as an opportunity for fediverse to rise. But with Threads, essentially a 1 to 1 copy of twitter, just going to scoop all of that twitter refugees. Not just that but Threads is using fediverse as ready to consume content farm and eventually cause some users to migrate out of fediverse to Threads because “Well i can stay in touch with near circle easly while still being in fediverse” and after getting enough profits they will defederate themselves because there is not enought to gain from at that point. They will suck the life juice out of Fediverse.
Also as you know threads is tightly integrated with Instagram which made many Instagram users dove head first into Threads and this caused Instagram and Threads culture to be identical. And i think you can guess how bad Instagram culture is. Threads is just a breeding ground companies and influencers with high levels of toxicity and homophobia almost instantly. And we dont want this culture to infintirate Fediverse (Right?)
Also no, Threads is not going to contribute to Fediverse in users because why would a user will leave meta’s ecosystem and getting into this confusing things about fediverse while they can experience fediverse from Threads? Your average Threads user is not going to care about Fediverse. They will not even know what is fediverse is properly due to how anti-user most of the fediverse is right now. We need to improve on user friendliness to actually get attention instead of getting attention because an another platform is dying.
We need to defederate from Threads to prevent them from profiting off fediverse. They will just bring bad things opposed to good things.
Edit 1: Sorry i was a bit aggresive in the post. Also i reinstalles threads to see how shittie this app is after a bit more maturizing and i already sae a couple scams
I talked to this one pro-Meta federation person yesterday who was really hung up on the fact that they’d be able to hang out with their Meta friends on a more privacy aware fediverse app. I tried to explain how EEE would work in the context of lemmy, and how their privacy dream is all a moot point because Meta will inevitably kill the fediverse and force them to Threads in the end, but the other person just kept going “yeah yeah, I get that… but if we federate, then I’ll be able to hang out with my Meta friends.”
I don’t know, they just had tunnel vision about being able to hang out with their friends, or were in the denial stage of grief about EEE or something.
This mentality is why mastodon is where it is and threads has 8 trillion users already.
Seriously lol. These are social networks, what is the point of using this stuff at all if you don’t care about anybody being able to view your posts or interact with you
i had this same conversation here yesterday.
person in question “has no interest in a Meta account”. oh boo-hoo!
That person just wants to lick the bottom of meta’s boot but also wants to be different somehow
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