Great thing about the fediverse is that it will always have new instances and we can keep moving to the cool ones
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Ah shit
Here we go again
The course is clear: gatekeep the normies. Corporations won't care if easily fooled cattle don't use lemmy.
Yes
Can corporations fuck it up if they want to? Couldn't we just migrate to a new instance and not federate? Or not federate with them from the beginning?
I've already seen it happen with a company creating an account to plug their meal plan site, same thing that has been happening on reddit since it started. Just don't trust any account thats trying to sell you something.
I don’t think this will be a popular take but I think big companies joining the Fediverse has the potential to be a healthy thing. They’d have the resources to make it more viable to onboard the masses. This would grow the graph and the content pool.
Once onboarded, people can hear the gospel from us Fediverse-freaks and potentially migrate. The concept of finding and joining a federated instance won’t be so scary. The people that won’t migrate probably never were going to.
Will they be perfect citizens? Almost certainly not, but it doesn’t have to be all bad
Do you want to onboard the masses though?
These are the masses that literally do not seek anything that is not packaged and maketed and placed directly beneath their noses as the latest zeitgeist, the must have, if you don't join you're out of touch!!!
It's not exactly conducive to critical thought processes, and a large part of valid arguments about social media being harmful.
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Then we'll create our own network. With blackjack and hookers!
Do we really want normies on our site? Will they really act as bait for the megacorps to come and ruin our federation?
Corps joining is fine. It’s when the corps are out in control that the issues arise