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Treat federation like email. Gmail didn't ruin email.
Gmail kinda did ruin email though, at least a little.
Honestly is not a big deal. Some specific instance might start behaving like aholes because of corporate greed or anything else.
All they can do is take their specific communities down. The affected communities can always move to other instance (that is easier than changing to a different system all together).
Changing platforms will always be harder than just switch instance because you instance changed the rules on you.
The word “millions of eyes” tends to start attracting corporate overlords. When we hit a million users I think things might start changing.
Tumblr has already said they are doing something with the fediverse but I'm not sure if that panned out or not as I have not kept up with the news on that.
But really, why would that be a bad thing for the users on the smaller instances? If you use Lemmy or kbin or mastodon or whatever for an instance you trust you could interact with users on corporate instances without having to sell your soul to Zuck. I personally don't see it a a bad thing.
The ads! Just wait for the ads!
Who cares? If it helps the instance sustain itself long term, then they should get those dollars
Blocking ads isn't about the dollars, it is about the malware and tracking and the waste of lifetime.
And why is your life worth more than your admin/mod's?
I was actually just thinking this when thinking about switching to @pixelfed i was thinking what if Instagram just converted to federated instance. How that would look
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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