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Could we get official word on what Kbin's stance is towards federating with Meta? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by Roundcat@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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I would like to know if I can feel safe here, or if I should pack it up and start looking elsewhere sooner rather than later.

If the kbin staff have already made there intentions clear, please let me know.

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[–] masterspace@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Everyone keeps talking in analogies like "playing their game" because if you said "we gain nothing by getting a ton of free content from Threads users" it would sound ridiculous.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

I mean, I'll give you a non-analogy argument. That "ton of free content from Threads users" is not desireable. In fact, if early reports are anything to go by, Threads is already largely populated by brands and thoughtfluencers, all in a race to the bottom to capitalize on mindshare in a new, unexplored space.

IMO, neither that content nor those users would be beneficial for the fediverse in the long run.

[–] duringoverflow@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i'm not here for the ton of content that meta will produce. If I wanted this content I would had been there in the first place. It looks like somebody else is in the wrong place and is dreaming of a fediverse full of brands trying to promote their products and the influencers pretending they are real life advertisements.

its funny that you measure value by that metric.

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

No, I'm just not willfully blind to the fact that social networks are only valuable when people use them. Reddit wasn't great because it was a niche forum with a handful of decentralized tech enthusiasts, Reddit was great because it was a big non-gatekeeping umbrella that welcomed everyone.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Here's the thing. No matter what the Supreme Court says, a corporation is NOT a person.

Facebook/Meta can't be welcomed, it is a construct without feeling. It is a massive profit-driven engine with no sense of fairness or ethics.

Anyone who uses Facebook can be welcomed, provided they make accounts and instances. But to allow a profit-driven engine like Meta to run an instance? That's not a good idea.

[–] duringoverflow@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

sure. But reddit was very far from what FB and instagram are. The culture that FB and/or instagram bring with them, is something that if I liked, I would had been there already

[–] jaye@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Flip it around and you got it. "Why would we want to provide free content to threads users?"

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Kbin, ~57,000 users in a few months
Threads, ~10,000,000 users in a day

I don't think you understand the scale of the dynamics at play. Quantity != quality, but even if Kbin were to take all of Reddit's market share, there would still be orders of magnitude less content than Meta/Twitter.