• sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    anti-meta activism is not a bad thing at all. The billionaire corps have their marketing teams, individuals and communities have their activism. Everyone can listen to both and take an informed decision.

    They are just that, activists, informing everyone about a possible issue. There’s nothing wrong with that. They are not enforcing anything on anyone.

    The worst that can happen is that if your instance admin decides to ban Threads and you want to federate with Threads, you’ll have to switch instances. Not a big deal. You’ll still be able to interact with the Fediverse, it’s not like you were in Twitter, you had to leave and now you’ve lost all your contacts there.

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      11 months ago

      The worst that can happen is that if your instance admin decides to ban Threads and you want to federate with Threads, you’ll have to switch instances.

      Honestly, the lack of cross-instance account portability is one of the major issues that I think the Fediverse has today.

      I’d rather have some sort of public-private key system to permit for moving across instances and being able to associate accounts.

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      11 months ago

      I don’t see moving instances as this simple thing that everyone else does. Until I can bring my comments and subscriptions over instantly it’s a huge waste of time. Regular users aren’t going to do that. I’m on my third instance already and almost didn’t make the third jump due to the annoyance of adding them all again.

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        11 months ago

        I meant on Mastodon, where it is that simple. After all, it makes more sense since they are both microblogging.

        In Lemmy it’s a bit of a hassle, but the devs were working on it.

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          11 months ago

          Haven’t really done much with Mastadon, I always liked following topics over people, and when I last tried it was still firmly people based.