Really good distinctions about Lemmy vs Mastedon.

To counter the ‘rounding error’ argument, I would argue that Meta is making the decision to federate because it makes business sense. Either they see that Mastedon is valuable today, or they see that it might become valuable in that future. Either way they are acting now to move that value to their company.

Interesting, I didn’t think of this. I assume anyone does whatever data mining they want on Fediveres content, but maybe it won’t be worth as much because they have less identifying info about the users?

I think it would be the new Instagram Threads app. It looks like a great way for them to get a lot of free content for their new app.

I’m very interested in what thr Mastodon and Lemmy instance admins have planned. I think there are great arguments made in: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

I haven’t heard counter arguments that are equally well supported, but would love to hear them.

A support channel? Not sure I understand.

@forkball just got added as a mod.

The posts in this community have certainly been a bit different from r/showerthoughts. I’m reluctant to be strict about curating the content but happy accept feedback on how you would like things enforced.

Only three posts have been reported as being off topic, this post being one of them.

i didn’t ask, so I will now

Just so you know, this wont count as a vote. it either needs to start with “YES:” or “NO:”. Without that i dont know if you think u/forkball as a mod “sounds good to me” or maybe you just think holding a vote “sounds good to me”

you and me both

YES: because forkball was a strong member of the reddit community and from their comment history seems to think for themselves.