Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won’t be evil, but let’s be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.
This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
This comment here is a simple analogy if you can’t be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922
Meta is already evil and has been for years. You don’t get back with your abusive ex and say “I’ll leave him if he hits me again”, you get that fucker out of your life. Meta is the internet’s abusive ex
“I’ll leave him if he facilitates more than 1 genocide”. Shit, too late.
“I’ll leave him if he actively facilitates more than 1.5 genocides (0.5 ethnic killings)”. Damn it.
I’m amazed that people can let a genocide slide like it isn’t the fucking worst thing in the world.