• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Threads is Meta, one of the largest corporate enshitifiers on the internet - the crap most of us fled from that landed us in the fediverse in the first place.

    …it’s userbase is a relative ocean compared to the fediverse’s drop, so the immediate concern is being able to moderate the tsunami of submissions; the long term concern is that things go peachy at first and the fediverse becomes so intertwined with Meta that it becomes functionally dependent on it… and then Meta decides to pull the plug, effectively destroying the parts of the fediverse that didn’t defederate right out of the gate. This is called “EEE” or “embrace, extend, extinguish” as others have mentioned in this thread. It’s a shitty thing bigger tech can do to destroy budding competition before it has a chance to become actual competition. Google has a history of it, and a lot of folks here naively think Meta will for some reason handle things more ethically.

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      11 months ago

      I think we should pressure public figures and governments to use non-threads profiles. That way if they pull the plug, there’s a loss to their own platform.

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      a lot of folks here naively think Meta will for some reason handle things more ethically.

      Yeah it’s way easier to win arguments when you make up your opponent’s position in your mind

      Nobody thinks Meta will be ethical.

      We just think federation will be good for the Fediverse regardless.