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   Cory Albrecht (bytor@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 14:24:58 JST Cory Albrecht

   Unpopular opinion:

   The #fedipact against Threads will do more harm than good to #Mastodon and the #Fediverse.

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     Cory Albrecht (bytor@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 20:51:40 JST Cory Albrecht

     • Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

     @tokyo_0 A lot of people think the Facebook Empire is evil and would leave it if they could, but that's all where their friends, family, schoolmates, work acquaintances, etc… are. Once Threads has finished adding full ActivityPub compatibility, if somebody can't see their friends' posts from Thread on their new Mastodon account and vice versa because of the #Fedipact, why would they bother leaving FB?

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     Cory Albrecht (bytor@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 20:54:31 JST Cory Albrecht

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     • Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

     @tokyo_0 It is incentive against joining the #Fediverse because most people don't want half a dozen different social apps and needing remember to re-post on all of them or trying to remember which app to contact somebody on. So most people Won't bother.

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     Cory Albrecht (bytor@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 21:02:18 JST Cory Albrecht

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     • vetehinen

     @vetehinen But with the #fedipact, if you go you'll never be able to see any of their posts ever again and they won't see yours, so what reason is there for you to go? Absolutely none, so you're going to stay within the Facebook empire.

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     Cory Albrecht (bytor@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 21:02:19 JST Cory Albrecht

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     • vetehinen

     @vetehinen Say you're in the Facebook Empire but you want to get away from it. With no #fedipact, you can set up an account on the Mastodon server of your choosing and when Threads has completed ActivityPub integration then you can subscribe to all your Facebook friends through threads and they can subscribe to you.

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     vetehinen@lethallava.land's status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 21:02:21 JST vetehinen

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     @bytor@mastodon.xyz what's the harm you see coming from it?

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     Cory Albrecht (bytor@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 04:39:24 JST Cory Albrecht

     • Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

     @tokyo_0 I never said that responsibility was there or that there was a moral obligation. You're making a strawman.

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     Cory Albrecht (bytor@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 13:56:48 JST Cory Albrecht

     • Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

     @tokyo_0 No, it doesn't mean that.

     The Fediverse has no *obligation* to grow. It can remain an interesting but ultimately irrelevant curiosity used by an insignificant minority if it wants to.

     But if it *wants* to grow so that it can be influential in shaping the future of the internet away from corpocracy and platform lock-in and towards federation as the norm, then actions like the #fedipact will be harmful to that desire for growth and the gaining of influence.

     Two different things.

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     Adnan 🦙 (adnan@1210.nl)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 18:00:21 JST Adnan 🦙

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     @bytor I did not sign the #fedipact because I am on my own family & friends instance and I want the choice to use my fediverse identity to talk to threads.

     However I recognize that very large instances harm the distributed nature of the fediverse. It becomes centralized for all practical purposes.

     Just off the top of my head, no instance / admin should control the experience of more than 1% of people of fediverse.