Looking through my feed, certain people are really angry that, even though they blocked Threads already, Threads still uses ActivityPub.
Logically, blocking should be enough. They even created a Fedipact. Problem solved, right?
But I think what really bothers them is that Threads is nevertheless using ActivityPub.
Look, in my ideal world everyone would be operating their own Fediverse servers. That’s exactly what I’m doing with atomicpoet.org. But I’m an edge case right now.
If you want to kill Meta, then people who use Meta’s services must be aware of the Fediverse. Right now, most of them know nothing about it. Those who do know about it dismiss it as geekery.
So how are we planning to bring more people to the Fediverse? Do you even want more people or would you rather keep this place an exclusive club?
The notion that the Fediverse is an exclusive club is an illusion. We should have learned that lesson during the #TwitterMigration, but it looks like we’ll learn that lesson yet again.