Fediverse

Give them a taste and then defederate...

The good thing about the fediverse is that instances can choose with whom they want to federate.

In my opinion, there should always be choice and people with terrible opinions should be allowed to express them – just like others should be allowed to laugh, ignore and block them. Whether we like it or not, the fediverse includes everything from left-wing to right-wing extremists. But we can choose an instance which excludes all those unwanted posts, just like we'll be able to block surveillance corporate instances.

Ultimately I think I'll end up running two accounts

I respect if my Mastodon instance decides to defederate because of a legitimate threat from Facebook, given the company's consistently awful history.

There will also be some good people worth following who want to use FB's Threads for whatever reason. If I need to, I can use some special frontend or web browser version to read the content.

So whether we stay federated or not, at the end of the day it'll be ok as far as being able to see things from the people I care about.

In the meantime, I'm going to bring as many people over to the real Fediverse before people get settled into one or the other

I do. I love my following on Threads but I hate how fragmented social media has become post Twitter. It'll be nice to follow everyone on one account - mainstream and otherwise.