Personally I believe that it’ll make people associate the Fediverse with Threads, which is not a good thing. Edit: It’ll replace their definition of the Fediverse, with Threads, and people may widely forget about Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin etc.
Considering that the big majority of Threads’ users are cringe influencers, brands that are ads themselves, and celebrities who don’t want to interact with anybody but their bootlickers (who are also celebrities), I would say it’s detrimental to the fediverse.
You’re judging the platform based on the earliest of early adopters. Yes, people with nothing to lose and everything to gain by being on the ground floor of the platform have joined, but general adoption will take a little while. It will grow and normalize. They do have an uphill battle convincing people to leave Twitter, and frankly, ActivityPub isn’t a big selling point. Being able to talk to nerds who left Twitter and Reddit isn’t going to drive the average Instagram user or current average Twitter user to a platform - or else they’d be here. Yes, that’s the side many of us know, but we are not average users.
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Meta should be considered harmful to humanity, not just to the fediverse.
They are. Like, objectively speaking.
We probably won’t find out because a majority of the fediverse will not want facebook a part of it.
I hope so…
When I draw from experience with Meta it will mean harm for the Fediverse. Their moderation will be bad. They won’t ban Nazis. Nazis will attact marginalized people in the rest of the Fediverse. So instances will block Threats some won’t = The fediverse is split. Zuck wins.
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I look forward to it. Granted, I wonder at this point if ActivityPub is still on the roadmap given the user count and communication already happening. Their goal is to hurt Twitter, and that’s starting to happen already. Why should they seek out conflict when they’re winning?
ActivityPub is very likely about complying with the EU DMA and future development of it. The Fediverse community by itself is practically irrelevant.
I think they will still kind of seek conflict with reddit. Reddit users that are leaving will then move to threads instead of kbin/lemmy.
I’m not so sure, given that it’s more of a Twitter replacement. I think it would capture more potential Mastodon users than Kbin/Lemmy users.
@Aityz @NotTheOnlyGamer @Sephtis@kbin.social
I’m following Midwest.social on mastodon, which is an instance of Lemmy, not mastodon. I give it a 6/10. It’s far from ideal, but you’ll basically come a cross comment chains in your feed. It’s much harder to take in the WHOLE discussion and kind of gage the general sentiment of people on the platform, but it is functional and easy enough to leave your own comment, as well as keep track of specific users replying back and forth. I could definitely see people using a more Twitter-like app as a reddit replacement now that I’ve test driven it myself.
beneficial or detrimental
i’d say rather inconsequential in the longterm
I hate that its tied to Instagram.
Detrimental
