• zerozaku@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    At that point, just block those servers/communities from your view and continue about your day

    But what if those servers/instances are the ones which has quality communities in it and what if the users and owners of those communities refuse to migrate to new server/instance? Wouldn’t that be the same case of reddit where the user base is split and the new migrated server/instance needs building again?

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      1 year ago

      DING DING DING. Here’s Facebook’s playbook:

      1. Create close sourced ActivityPub implementation to federate with mastodon/lemmy and gain users.
      2. Offer better experience than competition via exclusive features, reliability, more communities, etc.
      3. Once enough users have been obtained, completely defederate from fediverse.
      • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        This is absolutely a bad outcome and I hope the pact prevents this from playing out.
        However, I feel kind of ok with losing the subset of users that would accept and use a Facebook implementation of the fediverse. It directly defeats the purpose, regardless of how much better the UI/UX may be, and shows they didn’t understand it in the first place.