I totally agree with him. This will bring more people to the fediverse once they realize they can interact with their friends on Threads

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    9 months ago

    You can hardly kill a decentralized network. Even if we fall back to field 1. People who actively chose freedom will stay.

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      9 months ago

      You can: by making it irrelevant. It’s not dead then, but not used also. And that is what’s planned here.

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        Threads is already much much igger than the entire Fediverse, I don’t see what is there to lose?

        Currently tge Fediverse is mostly drawing in tech geeks, which are unlikely to leave either way. Federation with Threads might actually pull in “normal” users.

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          A natural network effect will pull in users in a network. Watering down our decentralized network with Metas network will make all of Fediverses advantages indistinguishable from the users perspective. Decentralization is not something you experience as a user anyway so there will be no obvious reason for someone coming from threads to switch over to the Fediverese. The other way round is more likely. Meta has insane design and market power to push out better Apps, faster CDNs and marketing to give users a better “Fediverse”.

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        9 months ago

        That solely depends on you! There will always be a need for a decentralized open source social media network and as long as there isn’t any other alternative that can achieve that the people who rely on it won’t go anywhere.

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          9 months ago

          Yes, but I advocate for decentralized social media to become the status quo and not the fallback role when corpo controlled media ends it’s life cycle via enshittification again.

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        It’s already irrelevant, it’s never been. The Fediverse is well over a decade old and most people don’t know it exists.