Sadly, there’s just not a critical mass of users in most of the communities I’m interested in. I pop in here every once in a while to see what’s going on, but it’s currently lacking the diversity of content that you get on Reddit. I’m still rooting for it to succeed.

Interesting article. I understand the concept there, but I still don’t see how defederation solves anything.

Threads is free to develop proprietary features in their app, whether they participate in the fediverse or not.

Defederation just prevents the two platforms from communicating. In my view, this hurts Lemmy’s growth far more than it could ever hurt a massive app like Threads. They are way too big to notice or care.

Exactly. Keeping our platform as open as possible helps us to grow as a community.

If you hate Meta and love Lemmy, the best thing to do is to federate with them. We stand to benefit far more from their massive user base they are from our tiny one.

I honestly don’t understand the benefit of defederating. The argument seems to boil down to “Meta bad”.

The thing is, we’re not doing much to hurt Meta by defederating – they’re far too big to care. On the other hand, by silo-ing ourselves off as a tiny community, we’re actually just preventing our own potential growth.

How does Meta do a “takeover of the fediverse”? The whole design of the fediverse prevents it from being controlled by any single entity.