What's with all the hate about federating with Threads? I thought people would be happy to hear a big player is coming to the fediverse that's going to bring a bunch of people with it. "Normies" will probably never use Mastodon or Lemmy but might use Threads, so being able to communicate with them while staying on my little community-ran Mastodon instance is a win for the fediverse in my book. And if somebody's annoying or whatever, you can always block them, right? Can somebody clarify why people think everyone should automatically defederate with them and lose such a big userbase? I mean, I hate Facebook/Meta as much as the next guy, but more users are more users...

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s with all the hate about federating with Threads? I thought people would be happy to hear a big player is coming to the fediverse that’s going to bring a bunch of people with it.

It's because corporations will embrace, extend, and extinguish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Allowing corporations to have any level of control will result in this place dying.

[–] Johem@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It doesn't even have to be extinguishing. It's bad enough if meta can reap the benefits of associating with FOSS (better privacy for example), while making their app the gateway to the fediverse. And of course that app will be spyware with social media on top. It's like greenwashing.

load more comments (14 replies)