The only threat to this burgeoning community is the same old divide & collapse nonsense that separates citizens under their overlords everywhere.
I would create accounts and start calling to defederate instances which allow non-polite (or politically incorrect or otherwise offensive) communities.
We didn’t just survive the trolls on reddit. We thrived amongst them. We can handle them. We can block them.
I want curatorial tools to curate my own feed. I absolutely 100% do NOT want any admins telling me what I can’t read. And going to another instance is no solution if that instance is blocked.
I don’t want to be on a purely polite ecosystem, or a purely right-wing-idiot ecosystem. I want access to everybody, and the tools to curate that experience.
The trolls do NOT have the power to take us down. But the admins definitely do.
Welcome to the Defediverse.
How about embrace and enshittyfy like Google Talk did with XMPP?
I’m okay with blocking corporate instances because they’ll find a way to do top-down domination. But I don’t want some admin stepping between me and other posters.
Now let’s have a good and narrow definition of corporate instance and we might agree on that.
Right, if they’re clever they’ll pretend to be just another group of nerds looking to create a new instance.
But if they create an official Meta instance and start advertising it, then we will know who to block. And if they want to really dominate I think they’ll make it official.
