Foreign investment got us started down this path. A ton of people moved here when UK handed HK sovereignty to China in the 90s.

Investment is probably a bigger problem now but that was established by the initial foreign investment booms.

Our ceo is a woman and she values being around people, so being the boss means we all have to share her worldview.

I’ve done the same and the reaction has been the same (though not deleted). I think it’s spammy.

I might create a new user account with ‘lemmy’ in the name if I really want to promote it, but I won’t be suggesting people come over unless someone asks me about it.

I should get a phone app…

Hard to do with a trackpad or phone, (but I can’t remember it happening on my phone.)

This bug is why when I’m casually scrolling I tend to avoid clicking anything that isn’t a meme that can be opened in-line.

That’s because we’re on .world and the main tankie instances are blocked. OP is talking about leaks into other instances. It’s a bad faith argument. Fuck tankies.

Generally speaking anyway… Have you been to reddit lately? The comments in the subs I used to go to are a mess, unhinged.

The more lemmy.world is down the more I use my alt instance. We’ll adapt.

It’s just a demonstration of the 90-9-1 idea

I think people who’ve only ever known reddit/instagram/twitter will find it dull, but this is still a relatively active place with quality users and mods.

The bigger and more reddit-like it gets the harder it will be to moderate and the more expensive it will be to run. Things are fine right now.

Just need to add more users than we lose. Lots of good things ahead, I see a bright future here.

https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

I think the stat is actually 430M monthly active users. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/reddit-statistics/

It’s nuts.

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That’s true email is out there, but it’s different because it’s an protocol like TCP/UDP, HTTP. Federation is the same way, but the fediverse isn’t and unlike SMTP the fediverse will be updated and changed frequently. I read another comment which made me think of this a little differently and now I’m maybe less against, more middle. Luckily we have a living experiment with Lemmy.ml and lemmy.world to see how this pans out.

Please leave.

Did you read the EEE article someone shared?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=EEE+threads+meta+fediverse+embrace+extend+extinguish

Allowing their platform access to the fediverse is giving them something they want in exchange for access to a larger user base for us. It’s a form of trade or negotiation, however you want to look at it it’s a choice to exchange something of value.

You’re looking short term. The issue here is that Meta is going to be able to destroy the fediverse later, not right away.

Not totally sure, but I don’t think that negotiating with Threads on anything at any point is a winning strategy. They’ll win every time. Kind of a ‘give them an inch they take a mile’ situation in my head.

At least by staying separate the user base will have to make a conscious decision about where they want to spend time instead of letting Meta dictate that for them in the future.

It is harmful either way. Not a great situation for fediverse. I wouldn’t say defed is useless, it clearly does something. Effective? Not sure.

It’s about threads becoming the fediverse by virtue of their size and resources, and then making changes to the protocols which ultimately lock out the actual fediverse. It will be ‘fediverse, by Meta’ where everything is hosted and run by meta.