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@TechConnectify Some people may disagree with your perspective because they simply don’t see the same feed and experience it the way you do. I’m from a relatively small instance and it’s a very different experience since it mainly federates with people that interact within a certain in-group and it filters out a a lot of noise as a result. From having been on Mastodon before I know some instances have a lot of noise!
That doesn’t excuse anything, nor is my post meant to - but I feel a lot of people don’t get each other due to the missing shared experience due to decentralization.
I think you speaking up is very important and people should listen.
@eukara thanks.
I just deleted my original post because too many people are jumping from "mall with anchor store" to "Fediverse as a means for Meta to sell ads and stuff."
Ultimately, I can't see how people hold both "I want the fediverse to succeed" and "I want it to remain small, fractured, and hard to use" in their heads at the same time.
Sometimes growth is OK - and in fact what's needed. If everyone here is viscerally against that, they're tripping over their own feet.
@TechConnectify @eukara
growth at all cost is not good, people here are volunteers, they pay out of pocket for the servers and invest time moderating, it's not "all growth is good" sometimes adding 1000x the amount of users kill the app.
If users want to not engage with that audience they have tools to filter those out also.
I agree that Meta should be met with a healthy dose of caution, but us eating each other over this when nothing has happened yet is not very productive.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish can be applied to many things, but it's going to be harder on Fedi because Meta would have to do wonders to make people switch to their platform over their existing one.
If they want to truly disrupt, they'll have to try and kill larger instances through other channels. Which would not be an attack vector if people spread out to begin with. Luckily we can easily migrate in those scenarios.
If we can't survive or co-exist, then this whole experiment is doomed to fail anyway.
@eukara @TechConnectify
We have been there multiple times; every time a harmful instance joins the Fediverse we de-federate. We know Meta from the beginning, we know they allow people to be hurtful, why defending them?
What is the difference, bigger numbers?
@eukara
What wasn't happened yet?
Today, now there is still Nazi and Transphobic groups on Facebook, what are you talking about?
@eukara Fair enough, I will save me some time , bigots and... oh I already de-federated.
@Andres@mastodon.hardcoredevs.com @TechConnectify@mas.to @eukara@idtech.space then there are methods of mitigating that financial burden, such as https://jortage.com which communally distributes the financial load for the benefit of deduplicating any participating service's file attachments
