Notices by Cory Albrecht (bytor@mastodon.xyz)

@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.

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

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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?

Unpopular opinion:

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