I cam here to get away from all the corporate BS, but suddenly people want to welcome Facebook/Meta to the fediverse? I cannot fathom how people see their intentions as pure or innocent, especially since they aim to profit off of the open source software everyone has worked so hard on.
I just don’t see how the fediverse survives if it decides to let these massive companies make their instances. It feels like it’ll be a repeat of the rise of social media, where all the smaller forms got wiped out by large, consolidated social media platforms.
Isn’t there an issue with scale here?
With 30m users already, Threads could absolutely create problems for many lemmy instances. I’m not familiar enough with the activitypub protocol to know what gets synced and how often, but seeing the growing pains that already exist I feel like a user count orders of magnitude higher than what we have now couldnt be great.