xthedeerlordxELI5: Why are Lemmy users freaking out over threads?
Because companies like Meta embrace, extend and extinguish.
Only if people voluntarily give up their privacy and switching to a threads account/app, right? I mean ultimately the argument is that Meta will develop features so cool that we’ll all give up our privacy for them?
Idk, it just seems like if that’s the fear, I think it will happen regardless and even defederating won’t really stop that. I feel like people will just make new accounts wherever the cool place to be is.
I’m all for defederating just because you don’t want to see or associate with that content though, that totally make sense.
CraigeradeWell, Meta said it already has 53 million sign ups for threads.
So why do you think they care enough about the comparatively tiny amount here in the fediverse?
The fediverse is virgin soil, Meta trying to get there before others is expectable, if only to poison the wells.
NepentheSame reason Spez is still doing damage control over 3% of his userbase leaving, up to and including signing up more bots to boost traffic and denounce the protests. It's not like he's losing a whole lot, it's 3%. But in capitalism, especially the ad-driven digital sphere, eyes are everything.
Federating with the rest of us IS a blip in the grand scheme, but so was 3%. The fediverse existing outside of Threads carries the very significant risk that their users will sign up for their service and see the other platforms that are just as nice without being ad-soaked, subscription-based, and demanding your real name.
One of us is going to be leeching users from the other and meta will not like this, so they're liable to make damn sure it's them.