This is well written and honestly the view I think most should have.

The only real thing I think should be thought about more is the advertisements. Both Facebook and Reddit already insert them as actual posts that you can interact with as if a regular person.

I would not doubt that Facebook continues this trend and ends up flooding the Fediverse with advertising anyway.

It is considered a plant.

Interestingly they are non chlorophyll plants that feed off certain fungi.

I tend to post a lot of pictures taken while hiking. Also flowers and whatnot. I really only do day hikes though, back and hip can’t handle the ground like it used to.

I’m kinda at a loss for words.

This isn’t even trying to be different from Twitter from what I see here.

I’m curious with so much disdain.

What was your reason for joining the Lemmy community?

Federated social media has been around for ages now. It’s just becoming more popular because of Reddits self induced stroke.

1984

They already advertised this in a way though.

I think one of the links for IG is Threads.instagram.con

That alone made me think they’re going to end up finding a way to merge the two or make them paired.

Well I’m sure many others will also say

“peace”

The lead person

I don’t think a single one of us came here to see it wrecked or taken over.

That being said, I do not like facebook and likely won’t stay on servers that federate with them. Especially if the instances start abiding by facebooks terms. That’s where I’m drawing the line.

That is the beauty of the Fediverse. You choose your landing and build your aggregation based off that.

A large issue I see is people coming here and expecting privacy to be default. By nature the Fediverse is actually more public than a centralized service would be. There is almost unrestricted access to what you post from anywhere within the Fediverse.

People need to keep this in mind when posting.

This is why I have a barebones Facebook account. Simply so people can reach me that only use that.

This being said it is also sandboxed into web browsers and I refuse to give them permissions for my phone.