The EU also has an official Mastodon instance:
Scrollone
joined 2 years ago
In some ways, I trust my data more with a highly scrutinized company such as Meta than a random weirdo spinning up his instance with a home server in his cabinet.
Just check if the case has enough space for your needs. In my case (pun intended) I just wanted two HDDs, and my SFF case has enough space for those.
Build it yourself! I bought a used HP desktop from eBay and I couldn't be happier.
Let's federate with Threads. Let's not jump to conclusions beforehand.
I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and see how they behave. We can always defederate later.
Federation can also be reverted at any times if they misbehave. Why should we block them in advance?
In other words, Threads could help spreading the ActivityPub protocol more, not the other way around
I don't want to use Meta's apps, because they're a privacy nightmare. Full of trackers
Why not? I want to keep up to date with their announcements and products. Famous people could be writers, journalists, whatever.
Following famous people and companies is what 99% of users of "normal" social media do.
Not only decentralization is not a feature -- it's a burden. "Normal" users (read: non nerds like 99% of us here) couldn't care less about which server they should sign up to.
Keeping an app up to date takes time and work. Especially if it needs cloud services (e.g. multiplayer games).
Good luck trying to maintain an app forever if people just pay it once.
It could be millions only if hundreds of Mastodon/Lemmy users start following hundreds of different Threads users.
Which I don't think it will be the case, since it seems like Threads federation is going to be opt-in by their users.
If 50 Mastodon users start following 100 Threads users, the impact will be negligible, since Threads will only push messages by those 100 users.