• zerozaku@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    At that point, just block those servers/communities from your view and continue about your day

    But what if those servers/instances are the ones which has quality communities in it and what if the users and owners of those communities refuse to migrate to new server/instance? Wouldn’t that be the same case of reddit where the user base is split and the new migrated server/instance needs building again?

    • ram@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      2 years ago

      DING DING DING. Here’s Facebook’s playbook:

      1. Create close sourced ActivityPub implementation to federate with mastodon/lemmy and gain users.
      2. Offer better experience than competition via exclusive features, reliability, more communities, etc.
      3. Once enough users have been obtained, completely defederate from fediverse.
        • nintendiator@feddit.cl
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          2 years ago

          Reminds me a bit of how to deal with gangrene. Chop the leg at the ankle or the knee, drastic as it is, is better than lose the entire leg from the waist down, maybe some jewels included.

      • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        This is absolutely a bad outcome and I hope the pact prevents this from playing out.
        However, I feel kind of ok with losing the subset of users that would accept and use a Facebook implementation of the fediverse. It directly defeats the purpose, regardless of how much better the UI/UX may be, and shows they didn’t understand it in the first place.