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Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by ruffsl@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] AlgonquinHawk@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

Can someone ELI5 this situation to me? Not sure what Meta can do to instances/the Fediverse.

[-] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

The will federate, try their best to suck as many users from fediverse as possible into threads, then defederate and become a walled garden again.

As for how they will suck users away:

Make their algorithms prefer posts from threads, so anyone wanting to reach a wider audience needs to move to threads
Add twitter like checkmarks that are only available for users of threads (they will say it is for security since they need to verify the idwntity of checkmarked people)
Add features that are not exposed on activity pub, so that you have to be on threads to use them (twitter did the same by for example not making polls available over API)
Intentionally make their activity pub slow and unreliable to make it look like other instances are broken and threads is fast and reliable.
Probably much more

[-] jaaval@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, realistically speaking there are no users here to suck. In a few days of existence threads already grew ten times bigger than all the fediverse combined.