Yup, if other corporations follow Threads into the fediverse, history will repeat itself. They’ll do to the fediverse what they did to the rest of the internet.

Not to disagree, but I think that’s really unlikely, unless they do a corporate merge.

Honestly, this is the biggest part that’s bugging me about it the most. Meta is probably doing this to ride on the wave of the Reddit exodus, but it’s not unreasonable to assume that other corporations will follow suit if Threads succeeds. And when that happens it’ll be like the internet all over again. Corporations coming in and setting up ad-infested data-gathering fiefdoms that will squeeze everyone else out.

I consider this to be a bad development. I could see Facebook/Meta aggressively growing to become the “default” server, then squashing everybody else. Not to mention all the US intelligence fuckery that will be potentially happening.

We laugh at this now, but in a few months we might have server admins enforcing Meta TOS on their users for fear of being cut out from the biggest part of the Fediverse.

I’d propose that right from the get-go, a bunch of instances should band together and defederate from Threads.

Would be good if it was only 10 minutes. Where I’m from it’s 15 minute ads (with horrible sound usually too), followed by 15 minutes of trailers.

Though we don’t have this bullshit with “convenience fees”.

He’s exchanging money for, adoration, power and control of a narrative. I think he wants to run for president someday