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how to block meta from mastodon (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] -4 points 3 years ago (10 children)

The outcome then would be that Meta’s instance would be defederated/defederate itself - how would that be different from now?

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    They'd probably attract more people (even people that are here right now) before doing so. Thus creating another centralized platform.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (6 children)

    If the Threads product was so superior, and Mastodon so unable to respond that millions would leave Mastodon - sure. I doubt it though..

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    You’re severely underestimating the budget Meta can throw at this. Mastodon/Lemmy/etc. right now are largely volunteer-run as opposed to full-time employees.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    That argument suggests open source products couldn’t possibly compete with a closed-source alternative.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    They can compete of they have the manpower to do so. Lemmy has literally only 2 devs. How many devs can Meta pay to work on Threads and outpace it?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    While Threads is federated social circles and communities will have time to form. Thread users will by nature of having the support of a corporate juggernaut, be the lions share of users on the 'verse. When threads pull the plug, the Fedverse becomes a ghost town overnight and everyone not on Threads will be forced to migrate if they want to keep their social circles and communities intact.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    I think few people would migrate away in that scenario. Some might create additional accounts (none of this is zero-sum). It’s not unlikely that Mastodon itself will become bigger because of it, and it’ll get hard for Meta to unilaterally pull the plug - a bit like email.

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