I just read this point in a comment and wanted to bring it to the spotlight.

Meta has practically unlimited resources. They will make access to the fediverse fast with their top tier servers.

As per my understanding this will make small instances less desirable to the common user. And the effects will be:

  1. Meta can and will unethically defedrate from instances which are a theat to them. Which the majority of the population won’t care about, again making the small instances obsolete.
  2. When majority of the content is on the Meta servers they can and will provide fast access to it and unethically slow down access to the content from outside instances. This will be noticeable but cannot be proved, and in the end the common users just won’t care. They will use Threads because its faster.

This is just what i could think of, there are many more ways to be evil. Meta has the best engineers in the world who will figure out more discrete and impactful ways to harm the small instances.

Privacy: I know they can scrape data from the fediverse right now. That’s not a problem. The problem comes when they launch their own Android / iOS app and collect data about my search and what kind of Camel milk I like.

My thoughts: I think building our own userbase is better than federating with an evil corp. with unlimited resources and talent which they will use to destroy the federation just to get a few users.

I hope this post reaches the instance admins. The Cons outweigh the Pros in this case.

We couldn’t get the people to use Signal. This is our chance to make a change.

  • Calcharger
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    131 year ago

    Do you really want the Instagram crowd to interact with us…?

    • Saturdaycat
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      71 year ago

      I’ve been on Instagram for 3 years trying to build up an art profile, sharing my artwork. I think it’s not Us vs Them, all sorts of people are spread out everywhere online.

      I’m happy to be here on the fediverse with my fediverse accounts, not threads. I’m extremely despondent about threads existing.

      • Calcharger
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        11 year ago

        No reason to be despondent until they actually make the leap to the fediverse and we discuss what the plan is to federate. Threads will not automatically federated with everyone. We will have a long time to look at what threads is and what kind of content they will bring

      • Leraje
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        171 year ago

        Based on your posts so far my friend, its becoming clearer why you think there’s no one to interact with.

        • masterspace
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          -81 year ago

          Lol, ironically my comments in this thread going against the hive mind have gotten more interaction than any others

      • VanillaGorilla
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        131 year ago

        If I was interested in those people and their content I could go there. I’m here because I absolutely do not want to see any of it.

        • masterspace
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          1 year ago

          I assume you only subscribed to text based subreddits then? Never once clicked on an image or gif that came from IG / Tiktok /etc.?

          My god stop being such a gatekeeping judgemental douche. Tons of reddit content was on subs like r/aww and /r/animalsbeingderps that was exactly as trite as the stuff posted on IG, if it wasn’t directly copied from it.

          • Calcharger
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            61 year ago

            I am on TikTok and was on Reddit. I like my FYP on TikTok. I go on Instagram to see what old friends are up to and the suggested content is awful and mean spirited. Same with Facebook. I don’t want that crap here

      • Calcharger
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        71 year ago

        I am finding plenty of content to interact with here. It just might not be my first choice, but I’m getting along fine. It’s still early