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originalucifer ,
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if the fediverse succeeds, isnt it inevitable?

the whole 'one account' thing wont really exist though, as they would be blocked by a metric shit-tonne of instance owners who are either terrified or just plain butt-hurt that corporations might take part that those admins will block the big players.

this will leave users needing to find neutral instances in order to obtain 'one account to rule them all'

i find nothing to fear here.

hendrik , (edited )

I don't think they care at all about what we're doing here on the Fediverse. Lemmy has like 46k users, PeerTube has like 20k users. That's next to nothing to them and on Youtube a single content creator might have a way bigger audience than all of Lemmy, Peertube, etc. It wouldn't be worth 10 minutes of their time to come up with an embrace and extinguish concept unless that changes substantially and we get like 100x - 1000x that many users. Or there is something else to gain for them. But they're certainly not interested in the userbase here.

Flax_vert ,

I don’t see how they could harm the fediverse as is. I don’t see how embrace extend extinguish could work, as if they extinguish, then the fediverse would just return to how it is now. There’s no way that people currently on Mastodon would decide to move to threads, as most are on there because they don’t trust big social media companies

atro_city OP ,

That's not the danger, the danger is there being even less incentive to move to opensource alternatives. If you can have one account on e.g youtube with which you can talk to people on threads, send pictures to insta, and receive comments from everywhere, why move?

smeg ,

For the same reason that people use newpipe or invidious instead of the youtube app or website: a better experience. The kind of people who use the official client aren’t going to be moving to be fediverse anyway!

Flax_vert ,

Because google and meta are creepy companies. I still use Instagram. I will not use Instagram if it had activitypub support.

catloaf ,

Probably the same thing that happened when Threads decided to join the fediverse.

veeesix ,
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So basically sign-in with Google?

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