And that’s fine, the Fediverse gives you tools to not have to deal with that through silencing or defederation.

But for many people on the Fediverse, they’re here specifically for other things, and being able to interact with the corporate social web from outside of it is ideal for them.

But that’s seems to go directly against what the Fediverse was built for. They say that “The fediverse is a collection of community-owned, ad-free, decentralised, and privacy-centric social networks.” Threads seems to be the antithesis of that. If people do want that, they can find a different platform or create their own. Not coop the Fediverse.

What about when the communities get so intertwined, then Meta starts trying to impose their rules on those outside communities? If lemmy.world chooses to federate with Threads and they do the same, it’s only a matter of time before their rules become our rules or lemmy.world gets the boot. If they don’t adopt them, it’s safe to assume the lemmy.world userbase would leave for Threads after having been a part of it for some time.

I was looking forward to being able to use a mastodon to interact with people on Threads but apparently that’s the worst thing ever for you guys? What?

Why not just go join Instagram or Facebook if you want that?