I mean, that would be the initial fear, but I'm not sure how that would matter. Threads can defederate from Lemmy.nsfw but lemmy.world can still federate both.

Maybe I dont understand something

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't see this as a genuine, good faith move from Meta. We're potential future competition to them. They can't buy us so I think there going to try to shit up the pace over years and hope we come groveling back. It's a make or break moment for the protocol against a titan.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

They absolutely CAN buy you though, they can buy individual instance owners. Maybe not the Lynch pins like .World but many others and cheaply.

It'll quickly turn into shit storm, and the average casual use will give up and go back to Reddit or move to Threads, which is what they want

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I don't think they fear the two hundred thousand people using fediverse compared to their hundreds of millions to billions of users.

We're as much competition to them as a food truck is a threat to taco bell.