Why is it so lonely in the fediverse

The entire userbase of the Fediverse is a rounding error for Meta. We aren't significant.

As much as possible, corporate interest and action on social media needs to be exposed and dismantled. Capitalism is inherently antisocial and comes with a bunch of social hierarchies and unquestionable "accepted" inequalities embedded within. Plus I don't enjoy trawling through miles of boring carbon copy jokes and endless attempts at edgy right-wing tinged "humour". The cancerous spread of fascistic "freedom of speech" culture that defies the logic of the concept destroyed reddit.

Letting Facebook have any sort of success in Lemmy is such a bad idea, they burn everything they touch.

Yes please defederate this shit and leave us alone

I think Zuck underestimates how disgusting his userbase behaves. I really don’t want to read the shit I had to flee from back in the day.

So he actually made one?

yeah him and his 30 million users

Threads does not really want or care about our tiny userbase. They want the normies and they want to OWN most of the marketshare of this protocol

Tbh I'm seeing a lot of Mastodon instances Admins saying they wont defederate Threads straight away; they want to see what Meta does/demands of all over instances first. The instance I'm part of (Fosstodon) is also doing the "wait and see" tactic.

BUT I strongly suspect most will end up defederating with Threads within a week due to Meta's shit moderation and attempts to bully other, larger instances into giving them privacy info.

I don’t think Threads need the fediverse to survive or thrive.

And correct me if I’m wrong but I think Mastodon’s biggest instances don’t mind federating with Threads.

Honestly one needs to look at the economic ensentives in order to understand metas goals.

Meta does not make any money from content on the federverse. Therefore, they have no reason to support its growth or future. In fact I would go as far as to say that they actually are going to try and EEE.

My mom has an account and I just... [sigh]

What's with all the hate about federating with Threads? I thought people would be happy to hear a big player is coming to the fediverse that's going to bring a bunch of people with it. "Normies" will probably never use Mastodon or Lemmy but might use Threads, so being able to communicate with them while staying on my little community-ran Mastodon instance is a win for the fediverse in my book. And if somebody's annoying or whatever, you can always block them, right? Can somebody clarify why people think everyone should automatically defederate with them and lose such a big userbase? I mean, I hate Facebook/Meta as much as the next guy, but more users are more users...

Wasn’t there just a post about how all instance admins can access user action logs from all instances?

Would this potentially allow meta to grab info on users based on their upvote/downvotes? I’m pretty sure my email is linked to my account here, and it’s not a far jump to link it to any other accounts I use it for to build a profile depending on the data available.

What instance hasn't defederated from threads honestly

Here's the thing though:

If we don't defederate, the users can subscribe to our communities and get involved and make them stronger as they become the official go to places. We can always crush it later if it becomes a hassle.

If we defederate immediately, the users will make their own communities which will quickly leave ours in the dirt as the larger ones of the Fediverse.

Just a thought.

I wish all instances did. Sadly some have a growth mindset bigger than their own ego and don't mind the Zuck'

What does this mean? I don't get it.

Lonely? I never felt such a sense of communality than here

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 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?

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

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.

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.