oh god that’s terrifying

ok to but to be fair, the creator of Lemmy is a tankie. not “anyone I don’t like is a tankie” tankie, but “genuinely supports the Soviet Union and CCP” tankie.

what in gods name is happening over there, between this and removing awards they’ve been acting really weird since the protest

I would agree if they didn’t already shovel in 10 million people from instagram in the past few hours, and you cant leave without deleting your facebook and instagram accounts and everything you have invested in them. They gained in the past few hours more people than the entire Fediverse has gained over the course of several years.

It’s only been a few hours and they already have more users than the entire Fediverse did during its peak by yesterday after all of this recent drama. We are already fucked, I salute every one of you as the fediverse sinks.

Can we actually fight back, though? most of the people using the Fedi are on Mastodon, primarily coming from places like Twitter and Reddit because of the recent drama. The biggest complaint new people have is about how complicated Masto and other fediverse services are to get into for people who aren’t tech savvy, between choosing different instances and figuring out how to use them. Meanwhile, Meta provides a familiar, convenient experience from a brand they already know, even with its horrible reputation. Then when 90% of “fediverse” users are on Threads instead of the rest of the fedi, they’ll announce that they are dropping support for ActivityPub and there will only be a few thousand people left elsewhere to mourn it.

Whelp, time to pack up I guess. Mastodon is the biggest player in the fediverse right now, so if Meta EEE’s us then the fediverse as a concept is doomed.

I hate that my first thought was the haribo sugar free gummy bear reviews and not weed gummies

Lmao yeah the one time I tried to play it that was horrible

What I find really interesting is after the hate train ended it never had a resurgence in popularity like Minecraft did.