My concern here is that culture will not likely remain unchanged post-Meta, and while change is inevitable, the change imposed by Meta is one that I don’t welcome.
I am on Akkoma for my microblogging and Lemmy for link aggregation. I’ve made some incredible friends over the past year, and participate in communities that I very much value. Even through the waves of joiners off Twitter’s and Reddit’s exoduses, there was still enough cultural intertia to where new people could see “this is the standard of conduct”. Of course, there are no monoliths, so people go off to wherever they’re comfortable and the instance rules align with their values.
The concern is that Threads, as of now, is isolated from the rest of the Fediverse, but is building and transferring it’s culture from already existing social media. Specifically the thing I came to the fediverse to escape, as did many others.
At some point, it’s expected that Meta will enable federation for Threads. For the rest of the Fediverse, it’ll be drinking from the metaphorical firehose. There will have been this culture that was built and backed by Meta, and for those people there will be no change other than the gates being open. They won’t have learned to use content warnings/headings, they won’t have learned how to interact with other servers, the etiquette just likely won’t be there, and why should they adapt to what the rest of the Fediverse is doing? They don’t value it in the same way we do.
This is ultimately why I don’t want Meta here. The protocol and involvement because of what will be their massive weight will be at risk absolutely - this is the thing everyone is talking about with EEE. But even if the protocol survives, the culture likely won’t. Even if I defederate with Threads, which I have proactively, it will have a ripple effect in how new joiners interact with the existing system. It’ll be overwhelming, and everyone will feel that presence, even indirectly.
Fediverse was built to be a break from algorithmic social media and the corporate owned negative-engagement-drives-views doom scrolling culture. Some people might want to follow celebrities and have viral content pushed to them. But that’s not why I’m here, and I worry that even with the choices that I can make as an owner of my own instances that Meta’s involvement will send me looking again for a new safe space.
I came here to escape Twitter, Facebook, et al. I’m not about to welcome them to the table.
My concern here is that culture will not likely remain unchanged post-Meta, and while change is inevitable, the change imposed by Meta is one that I don’t welcome.
I am on Akkoma for my microblogging and Lemmy for link aggregation. I’ve made some incredible friends over the past year, and participate in communities that I very much value. Even through the waves of joiners off Twitter’s and Reddit’s exoduses, there was still enough cultural intertia to where new people could see “this is the standard of conduct”. Of course, there are no monoliths, so people go off to wherever they’re comfortable and the instance rules align with their values.
The concern is that Threads, as of now, is isolated from the rest of the Fediverse, but is building and transferring it’s culture from already existing social media. Specifically the thing I came to the fediverse to escape, as did many others.
At some point, it’s expected that Meta will enable federation for Threads. For the rest of the Fediverse, it’ll be drinking from the metaphorical firehose. There will have been this culture that was built and backed by Meta, and for those people there will be no change other than the gates being open. They won’t have learned to use content warnings/headings, they won’t have learned how to interact with other servers, the etiquette just likely won’t be there, and why should they adapt to what the rest of the Fediverse is doing? They don’t value it in the same way we do.
This is ultimately why I don’t want Meta here. The protocol and involvement because of what will be their massive weight will be at risk absolutely - this is the thing everyone is talking about with EEE. But even if the protocol survives, the culture likely won’t. Even if I defederate with Threads, which I have proactively, it will have a ripple effect in how new joiners interact with the existing system. It’ll be overwhelming, and everyone will feel that presence, even indirectly.
Fediverse was built to be a break from algorithmic social media and the corporate owned negative-engagement-drives-views doom scrolling culture. Some people might want to follow celebrities and have viral content pushed to them. But that’s not why I’m here, and I worry that even with the choices that I can make as an owner of my own instances that Meta’s involvement will send me looking again for a new safe space.
I came here to escape Twitter, Facebook, et al. I’m not about to welcome them to the table.