Herr WolandJun 25, 2023

fediverse soon

https://lemmy.world/post/552886

fediverse soon - Lemmy.world

Show threadJeffCraigJun 25, 2023

The beauty of the fediverse is that the last panel can't happen.

We control our own instances. There's no world where admins wouldn't defederate from any Facebook attempt to barge in.

Maybe a few larger instances sell out, but users hold the power here now. If an admin betrays our trust, we'll just make a new instance.

Show threaddoctorzeromd
Even more than defederating, it's in the hands of users. If people were to flood in from somewhere with bad intentions, it would likely be from one or two servers. At that point, just block those servers/communities from your view and continue about your day
Jun 25, 2023 at 6:46pmWeb
Show threadzerozakuJun 25, 2023

At that point, just block those servers/communities from your view and continue about your day

But what if those servers/instances are the ones which has quality communities in it and what if the users and owners of those communities refuse to migrate to new server/instance? Wouldn't that be the same case of reddit where the user base is split and the new migrated server/instance needs building again?

Show threadramJun 25, 2023

DING DING DING. Here's Facebook's playbook:

  • Create close sourced ActivityPub implementation to federate with mastodon/lemmy and gain users.
  • Offer better experience than competition via exclusive features, reliability, more communities, etc.
  • Once enough users have been obtained, completely defederate from fediverse.
    • Show threadFlaxJun 26, 2023
    Best thing we can hope for is a competitor to appear or something and then have a very split fediverse between instances, hence you cannot defederate without causing major harm