Agreed, I’m not that worried either. The only potential issue I see going forward is that, if (or when) Threads decides to defederate from other ActivityPub instances, then people may feel the need to move to Threads exclusively. I don’t think there will be that much change in userbase, though. Currently it seems like the people who use Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. wouldn’t use Threads on principle.
I have no interest in using anything that Facebook or Twitter makes. But I’m genuinely at a loss for why I should be worried about them. What could they do to affect Lemmy?
Facebook, Google, Apple, Zoom and others’ chat platforms are made out of defederated XMPP, being the reason XMPP, a federated chat protocol itself, has never become popular in the past 20 years.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is a tactic Western capitalist tech companies use to exploit open source technologies for profits and control over society.
Agreed, I’m not that worried either. The only potential issue I see going forward is that, if (or when) Threads decides to defederate from other ActivityPub instances, then people may feel the need to move to Threads exclusively. I don’t think there will be that much change in userbase, though. Currently it seems like the people who use Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. wouldn’t use Threads on principle.
I have seen plenty apologists for Facebook/Twitter federation on Lemmy instances. Do not underestimate the enemy.
I have no interest in using anything that Facebook or Twitter makes. But I’m genuinely at a loss for why I should be worried about them. What could they do to affect Lemmy?
Facebook, Google, Apple, Zoom and others’ chat platforms are made out of defederated XMPP, being the reason XMPP, a federated chat protocol itself, has never become popular in the past 20 years.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is a tactic Western capitalist tech companies use to exploit open source technologies for profits and control over society.