I think this is a culture clash between the privacy minded FOSS crowd that is naturally drawn to a project like Lemmy and the influx of average redditors thats just looking for a new home.
If you already have zero trust in these megacorporations you will naturally gravitate towards preemtive defederation.
I don’t think any sane reddit refugee would trust corporations after experiencing first-hand how that ends up lol
If you’re out there reading this as a reddit user looking for a new home, and you can still have trust in these megacorporations, idek what to say lmao
Accurate. I’ve known for years that Reddit was going to go this way. As soon as I heard of this place I was onboard.
The fediverse is entirely public. Every action you take (all posts, votes, favorites, etc) is public. Meta will scrape all the data whether Threads federates or not, there’s no privacy difference because there’s no privacy!
But seriously though, I don’t want my feed filled with Facebook posts.
Hey everybody come look at the off-putting nerd that scares away the hot girls at parties with his screeds
Why yes, I have been told by friends that I don’t need to respond to memes with an in depth analysis because its just a joke, how did you know?
Are people really saying “the fediverse is doomed”?
Absolutely. You should see some of the handwringing going on over the idea that the mere existence of Threads is a scheme designed specifically and only to destroy the fediverse (as opposed to, y’know, their actual competition, Twitter). Way too many people throwing around the phrase Embrace, Extend, Exterminate without actually understanding what it means or how it might realistically apply to this situation.
Like, let’s be clear, Threads sucks, and there are plenty of good reasons to defederate with it. But it’s not a plot to destroy us. Zuck doesn’t even know we exist.
Isn’t it “embrace, extend, exterminate”?
Wait I thought it was “embrace, extend, extinguish”?
