You don't wait and see how it goes with these sorts of things. They will destroy the community before you can take action and it'll be too late. They will do their best to destroy the fediverse and privatize it. They can't buy it like they usually do with competition, so they'll ooze their way in, contribute bullshit to the project, create new proprietary functionality that only works on their instance, convince everyone all the other instances are broken, and walk away with all the users. You don't invite vampires into your house.

[–] eu8@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How will they destroy it if they are literally only making it larger and more useable. The average normie today has no reason to create a mastadon account, because almost no one uses it. But if they can use a major social media platform, and use a federated free service like mastadon, then that makes mastadon much more valuable to them.

The fact that a social media service is objectively good doesn't mean anyone is going to use it. Having backing from the biggest social media company in the world, might actually get people to use it.

[–] jerdle_lemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is the classic size vs purity argument. Would it be better to have a large fediverse with corporate input or a small one without?

[–] MrKurteous@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago

I started swaying towards defederating after reading this article, maybe you'd like to take a look and see what you think? It argues much better than I ever could.