Not sure what to think of this honestly. Like imagine a small email provider decided to block Gmail, that's a death sentence. It's impossible to get people to switch apps when they have to leave behind all of the content and people they used an app to interact with. And let's be honest, threads is going to run at a loss for a long time to grow their userbase before they start pulling weird shit. We need to have a migration path when that happens, and if threads is blocked everywhere, people will lose their content and contacts upon switching, so they won't do it.

[–] phraxen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I see where you're coming from, but you're underestimating scumpanies like Meta et. al. https://infosec.pub/post/400702

In an ideal world, your suggestion might work. Unfortunately it will fail in practice. How are we to determine when it's not too late to migrate?

Personally I don't care for those users. If they want to blindly follow their piper, let them. But I don't want that cancer ruining more OSS.

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