They do point out that people seem a bit extra dumb in front of a camera when acting for social media. It's also weird the photos in the OP made me think it was young women doing this shit - buts its 4 men and 1 was a dad with 3 kids and his wife on the boat (who filmed his death).
So that means 1) this guy managed to procreate and thus dodged Darwin 2) these people were smart enough to survive to for awhile so double check yourself before you wreck yourself on social media
If I understand it, it would prevent our content from automatically propagating over there (our server doesnt send content). But if they want to make another stealth instance and farm the content from there they could.
If a generic user is looking to create an account on an instance then theyād likely just default to the network that has 8 billion users rather than the one with 10 million.
I think this is where you are losing me. A generic user coming in is not going to understand who is federated with who. They are just going to be looking at individual instance numbers. As we have seen already when they all went to lemmy.world because it was one of the largest
You can see microsoft was big on using it to try to sabotage browser competition and later chat app competition. These days google is accused of doing the same browser competition sabotage.
So for social media this might look like: adding features to posts that only work on Threads, or possibly wrapping fediverse content in their ads / own comment section, and supressing the fediverse comment section / original creators.
I don't know that this will happen and if it does it will take awhile - the initial 'embrace' step is meant to be non-threatening for the communities being absorbed.
You mention 'users looking to join the largest activity-pub based social media network'
I have a question: Do you think we should be trying to compete for these users? In order to do that, wouldn't this instance have to try to grow very large?
To my mind, there are many downsides to having a few large instances on the fediverse. We've seen in just the last 2 days big instances going down because of vulnerabilities in new updates being exploited.
Also in general the experience of a very large community isn't good, and we've seen that trend with previous social media. Having smaller communities where individuals are semi-known leads to nicer communities, whereas huge social networks feel like screaming matches. The only reason old social networks pushed so hard for more users is for money making reasons. For us, too many people (especially casual people who dont contribute) on the server just strains our resources.
I think people need to learn a behavioral change where they S P R E A D O U T and realize that they don't need a large instance for lots of content and engagement.
Really interested in your thoughts on this though. I like your points.
IMO the best way to solve it is to 'lower the stakes' - spread out between instances, avoid behaviors like buying any highly upvoted recommendation without due diligence etc. Basically, become 'un-advertiseable', or at least less so
This is why everyone should take steps to protect their privacy. You don't have to go 0-100 overnight. Just audit yourself and do a few things now. Keep those habits up. Then audit and add a few more things, repeat.
I really like this idea of a reverse 'wait and see' attitude on Threads
My main concern with Threads is basically them farming our content at the expense of our community vibe (instagrams social norms are basically the same as facebooks, comments are cancer).
We could watch what happens in instances that are federated with them this way without subjecting ourselves to their experiment
My best advice on this is to pick one small community you want the most and contribute a little content each day. Kinda turns the sadness into a fun creative exercise.
As far as I understand it, an agora discussion is a necessary step before a vote. If you want to take any action either way, I think we have to discuss here first.
Sure I think thats fair. My larger point is that everyone is biased over time by their hobbies and professions, and we should be careful how harshly we judge others by our yardstick.
Maybe I should try one of these, for now I use a very similar item called the Aeropress. It does use filters though. It makes a single cup of coffee at a time
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They do point out that people seem a bit extra dumb in front of a camera when acting for social media. It's also weird the photos in the OP made me think it was young women doing this shit - buts its 4 men and 1 was a dad with 3 kids and his wife on the boat (who filmed his death).
So that means 1) this guy managed to procreate and thus dodged Darwin 2) these people were smart enough to survive to for awhile so double check yourself before you wreck yourself on social media