Leopards ate tankies' faces!

Speaking of federation: How do we get at it here in Lemmy land?

No, this is what they should be doing. It’s the difference between owning your house and renting. They get to make the rules on their instance, they’re not at the mercy of a tech bro company or a trash billionaire that might have a political agenda against actual journalism…

After what happened to the BBC and NPR on Twitter, who can blame them for saying “Fine, we’ll do it ourselves!”

Push celebrities, influencers, and businesses to create their own instances, outside of Meta.

If they just use a Threads account, then the Fediverse gets made irrelevant. Along come the Three E’s, and Meta walls up the garden and starts putting billboards up everywhere.

Celebrities, influencers, & businesses need to know that they can now have a social media presence that they own, rather than rent, where they can make the rules for the communities they host. It’s good for them in that it keeps their Fediverse presence theirs, they get to call the shots and choose how their instance is set up.

Because if enough people have a strong Fediverse presence outside of Threads land, it’ll make it much harder for Meta to pull the plug.

Depends on the celeb. Some are like you describe, some can have a bit more of an activist bent, like Cory Doctorow. It’ll probably take some of the activist types to take that first leap.

Also, not just celebs, but businesses too. There’s plenty that have a subreddit, or a Discord, and ideally, setting up a Lemmy or Mastodon instance will be just as easy.

The way to win the Meta war is to make sure people have enough of a reason to venture out of Meta land to come out.

Getting more celebs & businesses on their own instances may have the side effect of adding more moderator eyeballs to the discussions. If celebrities just ran an account on Threads, they’re mostly at the mercy of Meta’s staff and AI. If they host their own, they’ll probably bring in someone to moderate as well. Some better than others, but it serves to distribute the moderation load a bit more and keeps more of that power away from Meta.

Oh yeah, look at the Twitster Fire when King Elon ordered those viewing limits. That was blocking cities, states, and federal agencies from communicating with the public. Sometimes in emergencies.

Yeah, governments are going to want their own instances for that reason.

I deleted my Twitter account when Elon reinstated Donald Trump’s account - it was clear there was no saving that platform.

It’s a Nazi bar now because the owner is a Nazi.

I still have my Reddit account, but it’s becoming quickly like my Facebook account - I barely use it. In Facebook, it’s to catch up with friends and family, and in Reddit, it’s the more esoteric subs. But I feel dirty & gross every time I load up a page from those sites, so I don’t unless I have to.