• zerozaku@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year 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.
      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Best thing we can hope for is a competitor to appear or something and then have a very split fediverse between instances, hence you cannot defederate without causing major harm

        • nintendiator@feddit.clEnglish
          1·
          1 year 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.