I for one have not been able to get any of my close friends into anything fedi. But instead they were the first ones to talk to me about threads and they’ve enjoyed it too. They’ve said very similar things to what I used to say about mastodon when I originally joined.
That’s exciting in my opinion. I want the internet to go the way of all of these federated services and meta adopting it is a way towards that (no matter what you think of zucc and his company and morales) instead of it just being some weird gatekeepy little niche in the corner that I’m starting to see it as.
Blocking Meta has more to do with not playing nice in the first place. The concern is expansion of feature sets making other Lemmy instances/clients irrelevant the way google chat did with XMPP. Google put in features not compatible with XMPP clients, while it brought a lot of users on the protocol, eventually everyone just moved to google clients. Not so much about privacy. If something is public, it is reachable.
That said, IMO the only way for that to work is if a great majority of instances block them.
I for one have not been able to get any of my close friends into anything fedi. But instead they were the first ones to talk to me about threads and they’ve enjoyed it too. They’ve said very similar things to what I used to say about mastodon when I originally joined.
That’s exciting in my opinion. I want the internet to go the way of all of these federated services and meta adopting it is a way towards that (no matter what you think of zucc and his company and morales) instead of it just being some weird gatekeepy little niche in the corner that I’m starting to see it as.
Blocking Meta has more to do with not playing nice in the first place. The concern is expansion of feature sets making other Lemmy instances/clients irrelevant the way google chat did with XMPP. Google put in features not compatible with XMPP clients, while it brought a lot of users on the protocol, eventually everyone just moved to google clients. Not so much about privacy. If something is public, it is reachable.
That said, IMO the only way for that to work is if a great majority of instances block them.
Yes, but you can make an additional set of friends in the Fediverse based on your interests instead. That’s what I’m trying to do.