Love the dialogue here but you always have to follow the money trail. The best way to keep what we love is to bankroll our instances to keep them running and scalable to additional users without ads. Remember, if you aren’t paying for the product then you become the product. Meta has nothing without selling ads or monetizing user data. That’s their business model. As long as we chip in we can always maintain our independence. I’m fine with never seeing or interacting with content from Threads.

The ad exclaims that your husband will think “it’s better than downtown.”

What are they serving downtown that is being outclassed by this?

I want Lemmy to grow but it’s a lot of fun right now because the people that took the time to figure this out all genuinely want to be here and have a sense of community.