Honestly, Spez probably does want that. AI won’t destroy shareholder value when you screw it over. It will also fill in some gaps left by the real people leaving.

It’s complete Dead Internet, but none of that is really a concern for them.

Before you do this, you have to decide your strategy. A lawyer - any lawyer - will tell you not to talk to the press while the matter is going through the courts.

Clients, no. We have no way (currently) to individually block an instance, nor would it be effective in preventing this problem. Threads users, as a whole, need to be blocked from the Fediverse, so that Threads is not viewed as a way to interact with Mastodon users.

Our particular instances can defederate from Meta, which would stop certain issues - but not the EEE concerns that are usually brought up. It has to be a widespread block.

If by examples, you mean supporting evidence that they will be part of the Fediverse:

https://fortune.com/2023/07/06/mark-zuckerberg-replacing-metaverse-with-twitter-killer-threads-fediverse/

https://www.slashgear.com/1332608/meta-threads-fediverse-new-explained/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/adam-mosseri-says-metas-threads-app-wont-have-activitypub-support-at-launch/

And especially https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-05-at-6.17.21-PM.jpg

It’s not ready yet, but it’s clearly on their roadmap.

If any instance becomes large enough to have an undue influence, which Meta would likely have, then they effectively control the entire ecosystem. At that point, it effectively stops being decentralized (See: The 51% Attack, although this wouldn’t happen at a certain number/ratio). When it becomes convenient to them, they can pull the plug, and destroy the rest of the ecosystem that isn’t theirs.

It’s exactly what happened with XMPP and Google Talk.

Use lemmyverse.net to find communities across all instances. It will make you search a lot easier, and show you when a community exists on multiple instances

What’s interesting about this is that there really isn’t an r/All. All@lemmy.world will be different from All@beehaw.org, will be different from All@lemmy.ml, and will be VERY different from All@lemmynsfw.com

I’m intrigued by their endgame. Teamsters are well-known to follow through on their threat to strike. Unemployment is low, so it’s unlikely that many members will be scabs. There’s no way to contract out any significant portion of the missing labor. When the strike happens, UPS will be hemorrhaging money.

What am I missing? It seems labor has management by the balls, but they aren’t acting like it.

Which part of the 90/9/1 are most of those users? Very few subs are truly back to business as usual, and it seems likely the rest will be forever weakened. Recovery would mean either existing users capitulate, or new users *filling the same role *taking their place.

Reddit won’t disappear by any means, but it’s also unlikely to remain such a go-to resource. Once a social media platform loses critical mass, it’s easy to enter a death spiral.

Thing is, the slow boil technique is tried and true. Each turn of the crank would only anger a small group, and would ensure the platform remains stable and popular.

A better question is why is this happening all at once? It feels like the top brass had a meeting to discuss options to increase revenue, and just decided “Fuck it. Let’s just do them all”

The blackout was to show numbers- it was not a small minority of users that cared, but rather a significant majority. Pissing off most of your users, especially your most active users, is generally a bad business move.

The real question is what people will do on July 1. Will those same users cave and switch to the official app? Reddit is counting on most users doing that, or at least enough to make it a profitable move. I personally will not.

I will only see Reddit when it comes up from a Google search, and will not get involved in the conversations. Some of my communities are already permanently dead, and others severely weakened. But others are fine, since most users there are already on the official app.

As the quality drops, more people leave, and fewer people join. Reddit could cease to be a central hub and become more niche. It could also turn into a cesspool. There are some signs that neo-nazis and otherwise shitty people will take over, not unlike we are seeing with Twitter. Or it could all blow over, and this was all just a bump in the road for Reddit.

I think there’s something deeper about why people believe. It’s not that they can’t tell fact from fiction, at least not entirely. Quite often, the stories they believe are the ones that reinforce their existing worldview. This is especially true in the realm of politics, but applies to more mundane situations as well.

The people that believe the razer blade in apples story are usually the ones afraid of strangers. But sometimes their memory confuses events and stories, or details get lost. Other times, it’s bad journalism, or public figures trying to make a name for themselves. Bad information, whether malicious or benign, is hard to remove, both from a person and from society in general.

The NY Times, October 28 1970, published the razer blades story. It was full of confidence and input from respectable and trustworthy authorities. It wasn’t until many years later that anyone investigated it, and found it to be total bullshit.

Thank you for this. The problem is that a number of my subreddits have suddenly closed/gone private, such as r/piracy. This removed them from my list.

I suppose I should’ve foreseen this scenario, but I didn’t save a backup of them.