I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.
I could somewhat understand your position if the fediverse had more users, or users that would be very valuable to their advertisers, but both is not the case. Threads has a lot more active users no matter your definition of active users and the fediverse is a techno bubble with very ad-resistent users. So given the situation we’re in and the workings of the network effect for social media plattforms I see bigger upside for a federation. In the end the user can decide whether and how he wants to see content or not, that’s the beauty of federating plattforms.
Can you explain that jabber reference in more detail? The Wikipedia page didn’t help me to understand it.